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ON FREE PUBLIC VIEW 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 


BEGINNING SATURDAY, JANUARY 24th, 1914 
AND CONTINUING UNTIL THE MORNING OF THE DATE OF SALE, INCLUSIVE 


A REMARKABLE COLLECTION 


OF 


ANCIENT CHINESE ART 
IN 
BRONZE, PORCELAIN, POTTERY 
AMBER AND HARD STONES 
SUMPTUOUS BROCADES anp OTHER RARE OBJECTS 


UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS 
JANUARY 29th, 30th and 31st, 1914 


BEGINNING EACH AFTERNOON AT 2.30 O’CLOCK 


| 


‘ Cstalégue No 199 


/ "EXTRAORDINARY ANTIQUE Sexy 
BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL «|. 


ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 
OF THE 


REMARKABLE COLLECTION 


OF 


ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZES 
BEAUTIFUL OLD PORCELAINS 


AMBER AND STONE CARVINGS 
SUMPTUOUS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BROCADES 
INTERESTING OLD PAINTINGS ON GLASS 


AND 


FINE OLD CARPETS, RUGS AND FURNITURE, FROM ANCIENT 
PALACES AND TEMPLES OF CHINA 


COMPRISING 


THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF A CHINESE NOBLEMAN 
OF TIEN-TSIN 


AND OBJECTS PROCURED BY THE SENIOR MEMBER OF 


_ MESSRS. YAMANAKA & CO. 


AND HIS STAFF 


DURING A RECENT VISIT TO 
ANCIENT CITIES OF CHINA, SOME OF WHICH HAVE HERETOFORE 
BEEN UNEXPLORED BY FOREIGNERS 


THE ENTIRE COLLECTION 
TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


MADISON SQUARE SOUTH 


ON THE DATES HEREIN STATED 


CATALOGUE WRITTEN BY MR. DANA H. CARROLL 


THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY 
MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY 
.. ASSISTED BY .MR. OTTO BERNET,..OF 


THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS 


NEW YORK 
Th aiieaeasloniarindiety: 1914 RE oe etter — 


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CONDITIONS OF SALE 


1. Any bid which is merely a nominal or fractional advance may 
be rejected by the auctioneer, if, in his judgment, such bid would be 
likely to affect the sale injuriously. 

2. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute 
arise between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide 
the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 

3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the purchase 
money as may be required, and the names and addresses of the pur- 
chasers shall be given immediately on the sale of every lot, in default 
of which the lot so purchased shall be immediately put up again and 
re-sold. 

Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at the 
time of sale shall be made within ten days thereafter, in default of 
which the undersigned may either continue to hold the lots at the 
risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be necessary for 
the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or private sale, and 
without other than this notice, re-sell the lots for the benefit of such 
purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) arising from such re-sale shall 
be a charge against such purchaser. 

4, Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon payment 
of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. 

Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 9 
A. M. and 1 P. M., and on other days—except holidays—between the 
hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. 

Delivery of any purchase will be made only at the American Art 
Galleries, or other place of sale, as the case may be, and only on pre- 
senting the bill of purchase. 

Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, of 
any purchase during the session of the sale at which it was sold. 

5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in 
which the Association is in no wise engaged, and will not be performed 
by the Association for purchasers. The Association will, however, 
afford to purchasers every facility for employing at current and 
reasonable rates carriers and packers; doing so, however, without any 
assumption of responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of 
the parties engaged for such service. 

6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the pur- 
chaser. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, and 
thereafter, while the Association will exercise due caution in caring 


for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself responsible if 
such purchase be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. 

Storage charges will be made upon all purchases not removed 
within ten days from the date of the sale thereof. 

4. Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Association 
of the correctness of the description, genuineness or authenticity of 
any lot, and no sale will be set aside on account of any incorrectness, 
error of cataloguing, or any imperfection not noted. Every lot is 
on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, after which 
it is sold “as is” and without recourse. 

The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot cor- 
rectly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy 
expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly catalogued, and, 
in its judgment, may either sell the lot as catalogued or make mention 
of the opinion of such expert, who thereby would become responsible 
for such damage as might result were his opinion without proper 
foundation. 

SPECIAL NOTICE. 

Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties on 
orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph or telephone, will be faith- 
fully attended to without charge or commission. Any purchase so 
made will be subject to the above Conditions of Sale, which cannot 
in any manner be modified. The Association, however, in the event of 
making a purchase of a lot consisting of one or more books for a pur- 
chaser who has not, through himself or his agent, been -present at 
the exhibition or sale, will permit such lot to be returned within ten 
days from the date of sale, and the purchase money will be returned, if 
the lot in any material manner differs from its catalogue description. 

Orders for execution by the Association should be written and 
given with such plainness as to leave no room for misunderstanding. 
Not only should the lot number be given, but also the title, and bids 
should be stated to be so much for the lot, and when the lot consists 
of one or more volumes of books or objects of art, the bid per volwme 
or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is 
unknown to the Association, a deposit should be sent or reference sub- 
mitted. Shipping directions should also be given. 

Priced copies of the catalogue of any sale, or any session thereof, 
will be furnished by the Association at a reasonable charge. 


AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, 
American Art Galleries, 
Madison Square South, 
New York City. 


PREFATORY NOTE 


Unwilling to depart from an habitual reticence that has charac- 
terized their several offerings of Oriental art productions for the widest 
public competition, in New York, wholly without restriction, the 
Messrs. Yamanaka have declined to authorize extended comment on 
the collection presented to public attention this year. It seems only 
fair, however, in good faith, to invite notice briefly to an assemblage 
of objects which only the “infinite capacity for taking pains,” sub- 
stantiated by a true “collector’s instinct,” could bring together at 
this date in the Occident. 

The variety enjoins-restraint, but it may be permissible to seg- 
regate a few of the bronzes which have appealed to a not altogether 
uninitiate observation. The animal sacrificial vessel of tapir sug- 
gestion may be the oldest bronze ever brought to America; its remark- 
able patina is its distinction. A beaker of ‘“mirror-metal” is overlaid 
with that “natural patina in malachite shades of green” which Dr. 
Bushell has noted as being regarded by the Celestial experts as the 
“sure guarantee of age” (of a bronze), and is one of the finest ex- 
amples which have reached these shores. 

Students may compare the bronzes of the different ages. There 
are a number of Chow date—the dynasty of Confucius, the bronzes of 
which Ch’ien-lung chose exclusively for his gift to the ancestral temple 
of Confucius in 1771, so that each piece should be at least two thou- 
sand years old. (Some may be three thousand years old.) Most of 
the ancient bronzes with inscriptions are attributed by modern Chinese 
archeologists to Chow—a smaller proportion to Shang, with inscrip- 
tions of archaic pictorial script embodying the name of the departed 
to whom the piece is dedicated. Dr. Bushell says that no inscribed 
piece in modern collections can certainly be referred to the earlier 
dynasty of Hsia. From immemorial times the accidental discovery 
of these vessels on mountain sides and in valleys was considered 
felicitous, and names of cities and even of reigns’were changed in 
honor of the event; and subsequent to the Swng, noble tombs no 
longer being regarded as sacred, they were excavated to enrich the 
repositories of native collectors. The collection comprehends both 


ancient and recent subterranean revelations, the patina authenticating 


the age of the metal and the differing surfaces offering interesting 
opportunities for comparison. 

Ambers of remote date appear in unaccustomed variety, eighteenth 
century brocades in a prodigal effulgence revealing the splendor of 
interior decoration of the palaces of the day, with accompanying rugs 
of lustrous surface and prolific imagery; some exquisite porcelains 
have been found, and uncommon potteries. 

With the exception of the ambers, all objects for which stands 
would naturally be appropriate have accompanying stands of cae 
teakwood, whether indicated in the catalogue or not. 

The dates of the various reigns mentioned in the descriptions 
follow in tabular form or in recapitulation. 


Dana H. Carrot, 
New York, January 5th, 1914. 


CHRONOLOGY 


The periods or reigns mentioned in the catalogue descriptions are 
here set down with their dates; and from the beginning of the Ming 
dynasty in 1368 to the recent overthrow of the Ch’ing and last dynasty, 
two years ago, the names of all reigns are given, with their dates. 

The Three Early Dynasties (known always to the Chinese as 
“The ‘Three Dynasties”) : 


HSIA B.C. 2205-1767. Lastrrep 438 years. 


SHANG B.C. 1766-1122. Lasrep 644 years. 
CHOU B.C. 1122-255. Lastep 867 YEARS. 


It may be noted that, prior to about the middle of the ninth 
century B.C., Chinese dates are approximative, having been calculated 
backwards, but subsequent to that time the figures are accepted as 
accurate by scholars generally. 

Of the Chou rulers, Wei Lieh Wang reigned from B. C. 425 to 
B.C. 400. 

King Nan (Nan Wang), the last real monarch of the Chou— 
though Tung Chou Chiin reigned nominally till B.C. 249—surrendered 
to the ruler of the feudal state of Ch’in in B.C. 256. King Chéng, 
ascending the throne of Ch’in in B.C. 246, founded in B.C. 221 a real 
empire, on the destruction of the feudal system. This emperor-king— 
who was a burner of books and who ordered magnificently that his 
Ch’in successors should be recorded and known in numerical sequence 
to the ten-thousandth generation—was so baffled by fate that his son 
was murdered by a eunuch, and his grandson, a mere babe, was given 
into the hands of the founder of the house of Han, only to be with 
little delay despatched from this life. The Ch’in, beginning in B.C. 
221, and the Han, beginning in B.C. 206, were succeeded by the 
Eastern Han (began A.D. 25) and the After-Han (began A.D. 221). 
The T’ang came in in A.D. 618, remaining on the records two hun- 
dred and eighty-nine years, till A.D. 907; the Northern Sung began 
A.D. 960, the Southern Sung A.D. 1127—lasting until the Mongolian 
ascendancy in 1280, the Yuan dynasty. This survived for eighty-eight 
years, until A.D. 1368, when it was followed by the Mings, who gov- 
erned China until the arrival in 1644 of the Manchu conquerors—the 
Ch’ing dynasty, which retained power for more than two and one-half 
centuries until its recent overthrow by the pseudo-democratic upheaval. 

It is to be remembered that, as the Emperor’s name was never 
to be spoken in China, each ruler adopted a designation by which his 
reign should be known; this “reign title,’ or Nien Hao, is given in 
the following table with an English translation of its meaning or 
significance. ‘The Chinese original is prefixed. The date first men- 
tioned is in each instance the beginning of the reign. 


EMPERORS OF THE 33] MING DYNASTY 


Dynastic TITLE TirLe or Reien 
5 ° Reigned 
Miao Hao Nien Hao eure 


7 x i if 1 
1H. T’ai Tsu Y Hung Wu . 3 
d » (Wonderful Bravery) A.D. 1368 
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Hui Ti Boney of Literature) A.D. 
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aaa 


Cheng Tsu JK 46 Vung Lo 32 
(Eternal Joy). A.D. 1403 
Hung Hsi 1 
@888 (Abounding Glory) A.D. 1425 


Ads Hsiian Té 10 
| ha (All-pervading Virtue) A.D. 1426 


vr} Chéng T’ung 14 
. (Correct Ruler) A.D. 1436 


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Ching Ti =a Ching T’ai " 
r4 . (Great Brilliancy) A.D. 1450 
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Yén Tsung 


Hsiian Tsung 


Ying Tsung 


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(Obedient to Heaven) A.D. 1457 


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(Perfected Influence) A.D. 1465 


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Hung Chih 18 


Hsiao Tsung Ve (Marvelous Administration) A.D. 
1488 


Wu Tsung iki Chéng Té 16 


nw »> (Correct Virtue) A.D. 1506 


; Sx 26 Chia Chin A5 

‘| Shih Tsung oe LB (Rejoicing : Purity) A.D. 1522 

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Mu Tsung [(e Z ‘2° Pali aches A. D. 1567 


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1 Jus A.D. 1573 
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Kuang Tsung As T’ai Ch’ang 1 
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(Great Luxuriance) A.D. 1628 


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Miao Hao 


Shih Tsu 


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Kao Tsung 
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Hsiian Tsung 
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TINO (Vigorous Glory) A.D. 1661 
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Yung Ch’éng 
Signe and Uprightness) A.D. 


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Chien ane 60 
Coating and Exalted) A.D. 
Chia Ch’ing 25 
(Rejoicing and Excellence) A.D. 
1796 
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(Truth and en A.D, 1821 
Hsien Feng 11 


Jide 


(Universal Prosperity) A.D. 1851 


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(Excellent) A.D. 1909. 


(Overpowering Light) A.D. 1875 


Reigned 3 years. 


REPUBLICAN PERIOD 


FT AH. 


President 


Yuan-Shi-Kai 


(Triumphant Forever) A.D. 1912 


FIRST AFTERNOON’S SALE 
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1914 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’ CLOCK 


WHICH INCLUDES CATALOGUE NOS. 1 TO 192 


~CARVINGS IN AMBER AND OTHER CABINET 
TREASURES 


1— SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AMBER EGG-PLANT 


The fruit of the egg-plant and scrolled vines, carved and pierced 
in clouded brown and yellow amber, smoothly polished. 


2—-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AMBER Doc Fu 


In recumbent position, with head turned to one side and back- 
ward toward a smaller, playful Fu, sprawling in low relief over 
his back. His head in pure, light brown amber of limpid depth 
and clarity, the body opaque in a thick, grayish-yellow cloud. 


38—TwewtrtryH Century AMBER-MATRIX “FIsH”’ 


A broad and flat headed “fish,” reptile or aquatic creature of 
some kind, with forelegs and a curling tail, is carved in a sprawl- 
ing position with head on a rock—its body of translucent rich 
brown amber which overlies a beautifully marbled matrix of 


gray, yellow and olive-brown tones. 
Length, 2 inches. 


4—Dark Brown AMBER SNUFF BOTTLE 


Ovoidal contour with short neck. Obverse and 
reverse carved in relief with full-length figures 
in ceremonial dress and the sides with rudi- 
mentary handles. Seventeenth century. 


5—Brown AMBER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SNUFF 
BotrLE 


Ovate form with short, in-curving neck, well- 
defined foot and flattened faces. Carved in low 
relief with animal grotesques. 


6—MELON-sHAPED AMBER SNUFF BOTTLE 


4 Clear translucent brown, and opaque squash- 
yellow amber, carved in the form of an elongated melon grow- 
ing on its stem and surrounded by vines, flowers and smaller 


fruits. Highly polished. Seventeenth century. 
Height, 24, inches. 


“—SnurFr Borris 1n Burack AMBER AND Brown 


Profusely carved in high and low relief and engraved, the figure 
of a horse and two flying insects being worked in the opaque 
black portions of the amber, which take a fine ebony polish, and 
the clear, all but transparent amber-brown and pale-yellow parts 
carved with a rambling pine tree and a monkey, and brilliantly 
polished. Artist’s signature incised. Seventeenth century. 


Height, 21, inches. 


8—Carvine In AMBER 


Representing a mouse on Buddha’s-hand fruit. Has teakwood 
stand. 


9—Wuitrr Corat Miniature Coure 


Semi-globular, in the shape of a writer’s water-jar, with grotesque 
animals glaring at each other over the rim, from opposite sides of 
the orifice, their scrolled bodies carved in bold relief encircling 
the shoulder of the cup. 


10—Sitver anv Croisonné Enamet Snurr Borriz (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoidal silver body enameled in royal blue of brilliant quality 
with conventional foliar scrolls, animal-head ornamental handles, 
a deep shoulder-band and delicate neck border. 


11—Eec-sHarep Brown AmpBer Lonceviry Snurr Borriue 


Narrow foot and short neck. Bas-relief carvings of storks among 
waves and water plants, and the spotted deer under the pine- 
tree—repeated wishes of long life. Seventeenth century. 


12—ExTREMELY Rare Brack AmpBer Snurr Borrie 


Ovoidal contour on all sides, with a lat- 
eral depth greater than half its width, 
on a miniature molded foot and with short 
cylindrical neck. Smooth, softly pol- 
ished surface with the deep hue of 
blackest ebony. On one face a calli- 
graphic inscription lightly etched in sey- 
_ eral characters. 
Height, 2% inches. 


13—Crioupy AMBER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 
Snurr BorrLue with GREEN JADEITE 
STOPPER 


Ovoid contour, with flattened faces and 
short cylindrical neck, on a low foot. 
Smooth, polished surface throughout, with rudimentary side 
handles in bas-relief. Brilliantly polished opaque amber with 


the tone of clouded yellow agate. 
Height, 21% inches. 


14—Brackx AmpBper SnurFF Borrrue 


Ovoidal, of thick body with flattened faces, and short straight 
neck; with stopper. Deepest of ebony-black hue, and uniformly 
polished, with a surface of mirror-like brilliancy. Seventeenth 
century. 


15—Guass-InLAip GittT-BRonzE Snurr Botrre (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoidal, the entire surface covered with emerald-green and ruby- 
red brilliants; gilt-mounted stopper. 


16— FIFTEENTH CENTURY AMBER PENDANT 


In irregular arrow-head or flattened conical-fruit form; beeswax- 
brown, semi-translucent. Intricately carved in intaglio-cameo 
with studious personages, temples above waves and overshadowed 
by trees, the waves, foliage and flowers being engraved. 


Length, 2 inches. 


17—Carvep AMBER ORNAMENT WITH SERRATED Top 


Thin, reddish-brown, smoothly polished amber, carved on one 
side with the standing figure of a sage, on the other with a seated 
figure holding a book, an animal and a flying insect—the book 
bearing minute incised characters. Seventeenth century. Has 


stand. 
Length, 34%, inches. 


18—Two MorHer-0F-PEARL SNuFF BOTTLES 


Ovoidal, of pale brownish hue and pearly quality, with subdued 
luster, and enamel mountings. 


19—SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CARVED AMBER FLOWER ORNAMENT 


Clear and brilliant red amber, of sparkling topaz-hued trans- 
lucency against the light, enfolding a fleecy cloud or mass like 
snow in distant mountain hollows; carved and engraved in trail- 
ing, sinuous floral forms, with a brilliant polish. 


Length, 31%, inches; with stand, 4 inches. 


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20—Two ConitcaL GourD-sHAPED Brown AMBER SEVENTEENTH 
CentTurY Snurr Borrues 


Carved in relief with rounded double-gourds, 
vines and blossoms, on all surfaces, and pol- 


ished. Translucent. 
Height, 2%, inches. 


21—Lumrp or AmBER 1N Natura Contour 


Roughly, in the form of an American In- 
dian stone hatchet-head standing upright, 
with a high protuberance extending along 
one face. ‘Translucent pale-yellow amber, 


part clear and limpid, part clouded with 


lighter yellow; finished with a soft polish. 


| 20 Height, 34, inches. 


22—Rep Amper Covure 


Shallow circular form with expanding rounded sides and wide 
mouth, and a delicately defined foot. Clear, transparent amber, 
brightly polished in its entirety. Seventeenth century. 


Diameter, 3 inches. 


93—TwewrryH Century Four-sipep AMBER CUP 


In hopper form, or inverted pyramid shape, with dragon side 
handles and four low pedestal feet, the tops of the sides alternately 
convex and concave. Transparent amber of rich tortoise-shell 
hue, and nashiji lacquer aspect due to sparkling crystalline struc- 
tural variations. Archaic dragons carved in the round for the 
handles, their bodies extended over incised Shou characters. The 


whole brightly polished without and within. 
Width, 31% inches. 


94 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Carvep AmBER Lotus FLoweEeR OrwNa:- 
MENT 


A triangular piece of clear, rich brown translucent amber, in- 
geniously carved, worked and engraved in the form of a beauti- 
fully modeled lotus blossom in high relief, on a veined leaf, with 


stems. 
Length, 24% inches. 


95—SeEATED Ficure Hoxipine CHriLp 


Clear, translucent brown amber, blackening at the base. Coro- 
neted seated-figure carved in the round, the folds in the robes 
engraved, holding a man-child. On amber-glass stand. Seven- 


teenth century. 
Height, 214 inches; with stand, 4 inches. 


96—FIFTEENTH CenTURY Opaque Rep AmBer Ficure or Horer 


The happy, contented, 
portly god is reclining 
on his right elbow on a 
bag whose mouth he 
grasps in his _ hand. 
Carved in dense opaque 
amber of even, dark- 
coral red hue, with a 
light, soft polish. Has 
stand. 


Width, 3 inches. 


97—Two Brown TRANSLUCENT AMBER STATUETTES OF KUAN-YIN ON 
AMBER-GLASS STANDS 


The goddess represented seated, in carved flowing robes; in one 
holding the infant Buddha across her breast, while in the other 


he is seated upright on her knee. 
Height (with stand), 3%, inches. 


98—SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CARVED AMBER HorsE 


Modeled in recumbent position, his legs doubled under, tail 
swirling and head turned around to nose a bundle of books bound 
with a scrolling ribbon which rests on his rump. Clear, semi- 
transparent light brown amber, turning to pure, brilliant topaz 
against the light. Bright, lustrous polish; mane and tail etched 


with fine scrolls. 
Length, 3% inches. 


99—Carvine IN AMBER 


Translucent golden-yellow color; Buddha’s-hand fruit. Has 


teakwood stand. 
Height, 314 inches. 


30—SPECIMEN OF AMBER 
Translucent flame-color. Has teakwood stand. 


Height, 2% inches; length, 3 inches. 


31—Patrt TRANSPARENT AMBER ORNAMENT 


Carved in representation of a locust on a leaf, ingeniously ar- 
ranged with stems and indications of the veming. Seventeenth 


century. 
Length, 3%4 inches. 


382—Rep AMBER ORNAMENTAL CARVING OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY 


Sages clasping the emblematic peach of 
longevity are seated in the cloudland where 
the peach tree grows, a deer at their feet 
and a flying stork overhead—further sym- 


low and high relief in clouded red amber, 
translucent and brilliantly polished. 


Height, 41, inches; with stand, 5 inches. 


33—TwetrTtH Century AMBER ORNAMENT 


Clear, translucent brown amber of a pro- 
nounced reddish tone, in thin slab-form, 
carved in representation of the complete 
head and body of the fish-dragon, with bold 
features, and scales and fins in low relief and incised. 


Length, 434 inches. 


bols of a long life. Expressively carved in 


$4—Fine Carvinc In AMBER 


Golden yellow, in the form of a bunch of grapes, with stem 
and leaves and numerous squirrels. ; 


Length, 3 inches. 


35—SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Brown AMBER ORNAMENT 


Translucent, turning to brilliant yellows 
against the light, and smoothly polished. 
Carved in form of a robust man with full, 
contented face, seated and holding a small 
jar with swinging handle over his knees, 
wearing on his back as cloak and _head- 
covering in one the pelt of a spotted stag 
—emblem of longevity—with antlers and 
hoofs included as ornaments. The spots on 
the deer’s coat are indicated by finely in- 


cised stars. 
Height, 4 inches. 


386—TwewrrH Century Carvep AMBER ORNa- 
MENT 


| Sparkling, translucent brown amber with 
briliant ruby reflections, carved with mythical monsters of the 
imaginative Chinese animal kingdom, with details in hair-line 


engraving. 
Length, 3%, inches. 


37—TwewtrrH Century AMBER CARVING 


Rich brown amber, with a sparkling translucency of brilliant 
topaz hue when held to the light, carved in the form of seamed, 
waved and weathered rocks in a grotto or woodland dell, with 
a winged insect and a frog crawling over them—the entire piece 


with a brilliant, luminous polish. 
Length, 3% inches. 


38—Carvep AmBeEer PrAcH or LONGEVITY 


A luscious specimen of the fabled fruit of long life, of the tree 
blossoming but once in three millenniums, which, eaten at the 
hand of Hsi Wang Mu, queen of the fairies, conferred a span 
of life of three thousand years; carved in a brilliantly polished, 
beautifully marked specimen of opaque and_semi-translucent 
tortoise-shell amber, partly encircled by leaves and branches in 
bold relief and undercut, near one of which is a flying bat 
emblem of happiness. An ornament for suspension. Seventeenth 


century. 
Height, 31, inches. 


89—CtLoupepD AMBER 


Mountain RETREAT WITH SAGES 


Elaborately carved in high and low 
relief, pierced, undercut and en- 
graved, the substance in places 
clouded and opaque, in parts clear 
and translucent, almost transparent, 


the color ranging from pure amber- 


brown to a yellow-onyx note. Soft 
polish. A mountain retreat of the 
sages is pictured, with pagodas, rock 
peony trees, palms and other vege- 
tation abounding, and two of the Im- 
mortals playing chess at the head of 
a flight of steps which lead down to 
a billowy sea where a canopied boat 
with a figure in it is tossing. Carved 


teak base inlaid with the Greek fret. Fifteenth century. 


Height, 34% inches; with base, 5 inches. 
Width, 41, inches. 


40—AmBer Crovucutine Doe Fu 1 FirreentH Century MopeLine 


Clear, translucent, resinous amber of even, brown tone, with: 


occasional pale yellow patches which have been utilized casually 


in the carving of the features and as markings of the dog. He 


crouches, all four legs doubled under him, with head turned over 


one shoulder and resting against the familiar ball, the head- 


protuberances and the bushy tail modeled in relief and traced 


with hair-line scrolls. 


Brilliant polish. 


A fungus branch curls over his back. 


Length, 3, inches. 


41—FiFrTEENTH CENTURY CARVED AmBER Lotus Cup 


Translucent pale yellow and brown amber with notes deepening 
toward black and manifold crystalline, frost-like striations; in- 


tricately carved in lotus motives; engraved and highly polished. 
The body of the cup is a narrowed and elongated lotus bloom 
lying on a long stem curling in lateral convolutions, while other 
stems fold and entwine about it supporting buds, blossoms and 
a flower with pierced seed-pod. A frog, a duck and an insect 
appear among the accessories. Brilliantly polished. 


Length, 4 inches. 


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49—-FirpTEENTH CENTURY Opaque AMBER Lotus Cur witH HANDLE 


Carved in relief and engraved. The bowl an open lotus flower 
lying on an entwined bundle of stems whose open and closed blos- 
soms and seed-pods adorn and support the main body of the 
cup, the stem-ends and an extended petal forming a lateral 
handle. Dense amber of a dark jasper-red with broad patches 
of a pale yellow. Varied matt and lightly polished surfaces. 


Length, 44% inches. 


43—AMBER ORNAMENTAL VASE WITH COVER 


Rich brown translucent amber with occasional 
light yellow veinings, and brilliantly polished 
throughout. Carved in representation of an ovi- 
form jar on a pedestal foot, with sloping shoulder 
and wide neck, the jar resting upon a base of 
carved rockery and upheld within the embracing 
arms of a peach tree in bearing, with the figures 
of a woman and a boy entwined within the 
branches, the boy apparently endeavoring to reach 
the fruit of long lfe. The carving is in bold 
relief and in the round, and the whole is in one 
piece of amber with a detached cover carved in 
continuation of the general motive. Seventeenth 
century. (Slight repair near lip.) 


Height, 51/4, inches. 


44 TwetrtoH Century Carvep AMBER PicTURE OF SAGES BY A 
MowuntTAIN-SIDE 


In mottled red, dark mahogany-brown, dense opaque amber with 
a clear, transparent, nut-brown center which seen against the 
light is a brilliant topaz with a ruby-red streak. Carved in an 
abundance of imagery and virtuosity with bas-relief figures of 
genial and convivial sages in a mountain retreat, a stork flying 
among pine trees overhead—emblems of longevity. At the back 
of the mountain a fierce dragon with the fire-ball before him 
glowers upon a tiger, the king of the Chinese jungle, above 
leaping waves—symbolic of the eternal conflict between the 
supernal powers of the air and the mightiest of the earth. 


Width, 5 inches; height, 4 inches. 


45—Two OpaautE Tawny CLOUDED-AMBER SNUFF BOTTLES 


Flattened-ovoid form with thick cylin- 
drical necks, and stoppers. Carved in 
relief, one with sages and attendant and 
a Fu-lion and cub under pine trees, the 
other with a sage and votary under a 
pine and a Fu-lion under a peach tree; 
both with Fu-lion heads with ring, as 
ornamental handles. Seventeenth century. 


Height, 414, inches. 


45A4—TripartTireE Bamspoo Fitower VASE IN 
Carvep YELLOW AMBER 


A section of a large bamboo trunk is 
flanked by a smaller limb on one side and 
a water jar on the other, carved in the 
round in a light, waxen-yellow clouded 
amber with dark orange markings. In bold relief are leaves and 
smaller branches, a phoenix and a frog. Seventeenth century. 


Height, 3 inches. 


46—TwewrrH Century AMBER ORNAMENT 


Rich translucent reddish-brown amber, carved in representation 
of a recumbent Fu-lion with a smaller one playfully sprawling 


on his back, and variously engraved with scrolls. 
Length, 4 inches. 


4%7—CLoOuUDED-AMBER COUPE 


In the hue of lightly-browned meerschaum, carved in the shape 
of a poppy flower forming the cup, embedded in a mass of leayes, 
stems and buds, all brightly polished. Fifteenth century. 


Length, 4%, inches. 
48—Tatt AmBer Srupa 


Carved from a single stick of translucent amber in the form of 
a conical pagoda six stories high, with dome or lantern and 
torch, the walls etched in the form of regularly laid quadrangular 
stone blocks, with the cornices of the several stories successively 
receding toward the apex. In each of the first four stories are 
four recessed windows, a seated Buddha with clasped hands in 
alto-relievo in each. In the two upper stories the windows are 
blind. Amber of yellow-brown and deep red-brown tones and 


smooth soft polish. On a teakwood pedestal. Seventeenth 
century. 


Height, 8%/, inches; with pedestal, 1014 inches. 


49—FirTeEENtTH CENTURY ImAcE or Kvan-yIn 
IN FLeckep anp Morritep AMBER WITH 
Marrix 


The goddess sits in Madonna-like attitude 
against a rock shrine or back, the infant 
Buddha on her knee upholding a book. Carved 
in dense opaque amber and “matrix” in the 
rich, mellow brown tones of a meerschaum pipe 
of long and honorable service, the back exhibit- 
ing a surface as of porcelain with a crackle- 
glaze in beautiful warm brown tones. With 
stand. 


Height, 44, inches; with stand, 5%4 inches. 


OBJECTS IN CARVED SOAPSTONE, JADE AND 
OTHER HARD STONES 


50—Buppuistic Maponna (Sung) 


Seated figure of Kuan-yin, Chinese goddess of mercy, embrac- 
ing the Buddha as a mature infant who stands on her knee 
against her breast, holding a lotus blossom. Carved in soapstone 
of mottled gray, brown and amber tones, verging upon black 
in spots, with a predominant hue of deep brown. Mounted on a 
~mahogany-brown thalamus. 


Height, 74%, inches. 


51—Ficurre or an Emperor, Searep—Soapsrone (Ming) 


The “Son of Heaven” is represented seated on a rock, raised 
upon a rock base, his freely flowing robes adorned with delicately 
engraved, beautifully swirling cloud forms, with the wave motive 
and conventional lotus scrolls, and on the front below the belt 
with a large flying crane holding a branch of sacred fruit in its 
bill. The Emperor is in a high headdress, with the long ear- 
lobes of wisdom, his hair, whiskers and boots blacked with India 
ink. Carved in soapstone of dense texture and old-ivory tone. 


Height, 734 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


52—Sratep Soapstone Freure or Kuan-yin (Ming) 


Elaborately carved in smooth, finely-polished soapstone of waxen 
surface and café-au-lait tone. The Chinese goddess of mercy 
is seated cross-legged, with hands resting on her knees, holding 
Buddhistic emblems. Her high headdress is overlapped by the 
cowl and she wears a diadem engraved with the lotus and scrolls, | 
and lotus jewels in low relief adorn her breast. Her gracefully 
draped robes are bordered with broad bands of beautiful tracery. 


; Height, 7 inches. 
(Illustrated) 


538—Kvan-yin with Inrant BuppHa—SoapsToneE (Ming) 


The “divine hearer of prayer” is seated, barefoot, with knees 
apart and one fore leg flexed, on a rock throne of carved teak- 
wood, holding on her knee the infant Buddha who clasps an 
emblem in his hands. The goddess’s robes are adorned with em- 
broideries of cloud-forms, scrolls and floral constellations, etched 
with delicate precision. Café-au-lait soapstone with a patch of 
red-agate hue which has been balanced by overlaying the Buddha’s 
garb with vermilion lacquer. 


Height, 61% inches; with base, 814 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


54—Buppuistic Maponna—Sranpine (Ming) 


The figure, crowned and cowled, stands upright, holding the 
infant Buddha who carries a scepter. Her flowing robes, ruffled 
and waving to one side as in a breeze, are bordered with engraved 
lotus flowers and scrolls on a hatched ground. The cowl is edged 
with vermilion lacquer. Dark soapstone of reddish-brown mottled 
marble aspect, the brown deepening at the shoulders and face. 


Height, 7%, inches; on fixed stand, 8% inches. 


55—SoarstonE Buppuistic Derry (Ming) 


A female deity in headdress and cowl, with great dignity of 
bearing and solemn expression, sits with one foot folded under and 
one knee upon a low rock base, a large lotus flower carved as an 
ornament to the inner garment across the partly exposed breast. 
Soapstone of dark onyx and old-ivory hue, deepening to rich 
mahogany browns shading almost to black. 


Height, 7 inches. 


56—SratueEtre or Kuan-yin (Chien-lung) 


Carved in polished soapstone of café-au-lait hue, revealing in the 
back darker mottlings and at the crown a pale yellowish-brown. 
The goddess is seated upright, her left foot folded beneath her, 
holding in her right hand a sacred scroll, and facing slightly | 
toward the right with head gently inclined. Her abundant hair, 
colored with India ink, is dressed high upon her head within a 
sort of cowl. Her flowing robes falling low away from her breast | 
are finely engraved with cloud-scrolls and fillets and an intricate 


border. 
Height, 5%4 inches. 


57—Sratruette oF Kuan-yin with Scrott—Soapstone (Ming) 


Seated with one foot folded under her and both hands on an 
upraised knee, the goddess of mercy faces the beholder, her head 
turned slightly toward the right, holding in one hand a scroll. 
Her robe, engraved with waves, cloud scrolls, and bat emblems 
of happiness in the skies, is painted in soft gray-blue and overlain 
with lacquer, the front of the headdress and back of the base 


lacquered in vermilion. 
Height, 51% inches. 


58—JrEwrELED Denc-Ho ImaceE or Buppua, 
in CLosep Surine (Ming) 


The Buddha squats cross-legged on a 
lacquered throne against a fire-gilt back- 
ing with cloud-white, aubergine and tur- 
quoise enamels. One arm is bare, its 
hand covered by the cloak which com- 
pletely enfolds his other arm and hand. 
Delicately carved in yellow Deng-ho, the 
rare variety of soapstone which the 
Chinese treasure so highly that its com- 
merce is based on the ounce. The cloak 
minutely engraved in hatch, wave and 
lotus motives, with ruby-red jewels 
centering the blossoms. Artist’s signa- 
ture incised in the back. 

The carved teak ‘shrine is adorned in 
front with applied ornaments of mother- 
of pearl and ivory, and surmounting it 
is a carved dove in gold lacquer, with 

* wings outspread. 


Height, 234 inches; with shrine, 1414 inches. 


59—Arnat Prayine with Froc—Soapstrone (Ming) 


One of the Arhats, with breast and abdomen exposed and robe 
bound behind his armpits by a rope girdle, is seated with one 
knee raised, holding up to his shoulder a frog—his admired and 
inseparable companion—that is biting the large ring in his 
deep-lobed ear. His mouth is opened in a merry smile. His 
black hair is tonsured and his robes are engraved with cloud 
forms and flowers and a border of waves. The stone has an 
| even, ivory-brown tone throughout. 


Height, 4 inches. 


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60—Soapsrone Recumbent Grovep—AruatT anv Lion (Ming) 


One of the Eighteen Arhats, his flowing and tasseled robes finely 
engraved with cloud-scroll ornamentation, reclines on a crouching 
Fu-lion upon whose upturned head he is looking down. The yel- 
lowish-brown stone, turned on some of the surfaces to a ripe 
meerschaum-brown, is marked on the lion’s shoulder by notes of 
red, and the engraved ornamentation which represents gold em- 
broidery on the robes retains in places the original gilding. 


Length, 5 inches. 


61—SoarsTone STaTueTTe or Kvuan-yin (Ming) 


The Chinese Goddess of Mercy is seated with feet folded under 
her and hands lying one over the other palm-upward in her 
lap. She sits upright, head slightly inclined, with benignant ex- 
pression and carved with great dignity and refinement. Her 
robes are bordered with an ornate foliar scroll, finely engraved, 
retaining much of the gilding which originally embellished it. 
The stone of a light, pale yellowish-brown hue with waxen surface. 


Height, 6 inches. 
(Illustrated) 


62—ArHAT AnD Fvu-LIon—Soarstone (Ming) 


Seated with one foot folded under him and one foot raised, the 
Arhat holds in his arm the Fu-lion, which climbs up his shoulder 
and has seized with its lips his large earring. His black beard, 
most delicately engraved, and his hair, are colored with India 
ink, and his robe is ornamented with fungus and cloud forms on 
cross-hatched grounds. The whole in the yellow tone of old 
ivory. Detached rock base bearing a foliate medallion in relief 
with a finely-traced arabesque border. 


Height, 444 inches. 
(Illustrated) 


63—Seatep Arwuat oN Detracuep Rock Base—Soapstone (Ming) 


A being of powerful, dignified head, the Arhat sits cross-legged, 
holding a rosary over one knee. His elaborate robes are orna- 
mented with broad borders of acanthus scroll and waves, finely 
etched and overlaid with gold. The characteristic waxy-yellow 
soapstone is mottled with expansive streaks and patches of red- 
agate hue and quality. On the detached rock base, a foliate 
medallion in relief with finely etched floral border. 


Height, 5%, inches. 
(Illustrated) 


64—Sierpine Roxan—SoarstTone (Ming) 


An old and partly bald man, enfolded in loose, plain robes, the 
Rokan or Arhat is represented lying on the ground, his sandalled 
feet projecting from beneath his cloak, his head and shoulders 
propped up on the back of a crouching Fu-lion over which he 
has folded his arms, dropping his chin upon them and composing 
himself for slumber. The lion remains alert and watchful. 
Carved in veined and mottled soapstone of gray and sandy-red 


aspect resembling carnelian. 
Height, 31%, inches. 


65—Denc-no Ficurre or Monzu, CutneseE Goppress or WIsDOM AND 
IntEcritry (Ming) 


The goddess reclines on the ground, facing the spectator, hold- 
ing in one hand which clasps her upraised right knee a long- 
stemmed lotus-blossom, and in the other—whose elbow rests on 
a Fu-lion couchant at her side, looking up at her—a folded 
scroll. Her hair, bound over her forehead, hangs to the ground 
at her back; her flowing robes are without ornament. Faith- 
fully carved in translucent Deng-ho of topaz hue and waxen 
surface—a variety of soapstone so highly appreciated among 
the Chinese that in traffic it is sold per ounce. 'Two-character 
inscription on the back—the artist’s name, Yu Hsiian. 


Height, 2 inches. 


66—Sratep Arnat—Soarstone (Ming) 


An Arhat with strongly marked features and knit brows is 
seated on a rock base, holding the Fu-lion in his arms, the lion 
undercut in full relief, its back showing a tawny hue against 
the gray, waxen surface of the main body of the stone. The 
Arhat’s eyebrows, hair, mustache and suggestion of a beard, and 


the wave-scroll border of his cloak are in hairline engraving, 
colored. 


Height, 3 inches. 


67—Dene-no Seatrep Ficure (Ming) 


An Arhat seated on the. ground, one foot folded under him and 
the other knee raised, gazes downward in meditation, a hand on 
either knee and in one hand holding a book. He is dressed in 
loose, folded robes, unadorned. Carved in pale, yellowish-brown 
Deng-ho, a variety of soapstone so valued in China that when 
sold its weight is measured by the ounce. 

Height, 2% inches. 


68—Monzu MovunTep on A Fu-1ti0on—Soarstone (Ch’ien-lung) 


The lion is represented walking on a fungus-scroll of openwork, 
on an up-shooting branch of which the goddess of wisdom and 
integrity rests one foot as she sits on the lion’s back, side-saddle 
fashion, with one foot brought up to the opposite knee. She 
holds to the lion’s mane with one hand and with the other proffers 
a rosary. Carved in detail in red and brown soapstone with an 
aspect of sard and jasper. 


Height, 3 inches. 


69—Five Laceuer Trays 


Circular and shallow, with the rise of the bowl and the rim of 
woven texture and fluted. Variously decorated with landscapes 
and with figures afoot, ahorseback and in a boat, in numerous 
colors on a gold ground. Exterior of rim in vermilion lacquer. 


Inscriptions on bottom. 
Diameter, 536 inches. 


70—Two Ivory Oprium-rires 
Each made from one solid piece of polished ivory, mellow-toned, 
and ornamented. only with a single seated figure, with acces 
sories, carved in relief and engraved. The bowl of one pot- 
tery, of the other porcelain, both ornamented in enamel colors. 


Length, 21% inches. 


71—Ivory anp Laceuer Buppuistic Group (Ming) 


Standing long-robed figure of a divinity holding 
in her right arm the infant Buddha, who rests one 
hand on her shoulder. Both figures are carved in 
wood covered with vermilion and gold lacquer, 
the head of the goddess in ivory which about the 
face has taken on a rich, mellow-brown tone of 
age. 

Height, 914 inches. 


72—RHINOCEROS-HORN ORNAMENT 


Hollowed underneath, the outside carved in rep- 
resentation of a bird in setting attitude with two 
smaller ones under one raised wing, the feathers 
of the larger bird finely engraved. ‘The whole in 
various tones of brown. Carved and tinted ivory 
stand. 

71 Length, 4%, inches. 


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%38—RuInNOcEROS-HORN LiBpATION CuP 


Expanding from a rounded foot in lateral elongation and havy- 
iug a broad loop-handle, the form reproducing ancient bronze 
cups. Elaborately carved with numerous archaic dragons of 
varying form and features in bold relief and in the round, a 
dozen or more of them encircling the body and handle and a 
large four-clawed one sprawling at one end of the interior. 
Additional ornament of scrolls and palmations in low relief 
and engraving, and under the rim and on its surface incised 
borders of the Greek fret. Color, a rich, dark, reddish-brown. 


Tall carved teakwood stand. 
Height, 41% inches; length, 744, inches. 


74—RHINOCEROS-HORN LiIBATION CuP 


With elliptical mouth, the sides contracting to a full, thick stem 
or trunk which acts as base and handle. Carved in low relief 
and undercutting with gnarled pines and other trees in a rocky 
landscape or grotto at the border of the sea, a boat transporting 
several persons appearing among billowing waves, the water and 
pine needles etched in fine lines. Color, a light fawn-brown. Tall 


carved teakwood stand. 
Height, 41%, inches; length, 74%, inches. 


75—Two Peart anp Lacauer Taste Screens (K’ang-hsi) 


On lacquer panels of rich, dark mahogany tone, two female 
figures are delicately applied in mother-of-pearl and _ brilliant 
enamels—blue, vermilion, green—carved and engraved, the shawl- 
collar of one of the figures being of cinnabar lacquer with the 
wave motive minutely incised. On the reverse of each, in applied 
characters carved in mother-of-pearl, the artist has composed 


a poem, signing it with an incised seal. 
Height, 1234 inches. 


76—BeavtTirut AmBER NECKLACE wITH FEr-T’sut JADE ORNAMENTS 


(Ch’ien-lung) 


Containing one hundred and eight evenly matched beads of pale 
yellow and brown translucent and clouded amber, with three in- 
tervening large beads of mottled green fei-t’sui jade besides the 
ornaments of the same stone, and pink coral beads in the pendant 
chains. 

In box of vermilion and black lacquer with a long inscription on 
top of cover and mirror on inner side. 


Length, 59 inches without pendants. 


77—Manparin Neckuace or Fer-t’sur Jape anp Corat, In Biack 
LacevEer Box . 


Numbering one hundred and seventy-two beads of green jade and 
rosy pink coral, carved, pierced and engraved, and five green 
jade pendants pierced and carved with scrolling animal forms. 
Cover of box carved with a representation of the phoenix reaching 
toward a branch of a tree, and etched with an inscription in 
twelve characters. 


Length, without the pendants, 60 inches. 


18—Two “Cuinest Rusy’” Snurr Borries 


/ Pink tourmaline. Of flattened blossom form, obverse and reverse 

carved in low relief with Taoist Immortals at chess and other 

occupations, and the sides carved in bold relief with lotus flowers 

and carp. The stopper handles formed of pecking birds executed 

| in the round, with wing and tail feathers engraved. In teakwood | 
boxes with covers carved with Shou characters and bat symbols | 
of happiness among cloud scrolls. 


Height, 2°, inches. 


”9—Smatt Brur Grass Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) 


Dense opaque glass of starch-blue tone, painted in white with 
a blossoming wild plum tree with wide-spreading branches. 


Height, 334 inches. 


80—InmrEeRtAL YELLow Grass Bown (Ci’ien-lung) 
Deep, with ovoidal contour and delicately everted lip, on low 
circular foot. Thin, translucent, sonorous glass of even, Im- 
perial yellow color, and brilliant surface, both exterior and in- 
terior. Etched underneath the foot, within a double square: 
“Chien-lung nien-chih” (Made in the reign of Ch’ien-lung). 


Diameter, 6 inches. 


81—Antiave Guass Botrriz-rorm Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoidal with straight neck. Dense, opaque, Imperial yellow 
glass with lustrous surface. Four-character mark of Ch’ien-lung 
engraved on the foot. 

Height, 91%, inches. 


82— Antique Grass Borrie-sHaPED Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid, with tubular neck; fashioned of thick, opaque glass of 
light pistache-green color. Four-character mark of Ch’ien-lung 
incised underneath the foot. 


Height, 91% inches. 


83—REMARKABLE Carvep Rock Crystat VASE wITH ITs Own 
OricinaL Cover (Ch’ten-lung) 


Fashioned in the form of ancient bronze and jade vases of 
flattened pear-shape, on a low foot, with loop-handles supporting 
large loose rings. Heavily and deeply carved with a high-relief 
decoration of numerous phceenixes in various attitudes among tree 
peonies and cloud scrolls, with details etched; handles intricately 
carved with the sacred fungus, the loose rings smoothly polished ; 
at lip and foot an engraved fret-border. The cover carved with 


a shih-lung or earth dragon, and having at its lower edge a 
corresponding fret-border. 


Height, 15 inches. 


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84—Tatt Waite Jape VASE wITH COVER 


Flattened flask shape on a low foot. Of a soft, even, gray-white 
tone throughout, translucent and with a texture revealing inner 


~mottlings without change of color. Brilliantly polished, the broad 


faces left unornamented and the narrow sides carved with ascend- 
ing four-clawed dragons in high relief, their necks and heads 
undercut and modeled in the round above the shoulder of the vase, 
forming side-handles sustaining each two loose rings. The highly 
polished cover, of the same perfection of texture and polish, is 
surmounted by another four-clawed dragon, undercut in full 
relief, supporting the pearl of omnipotence on his back, which 
is finely engraved with scales, and carrying also two small loose 
rings. The lip of the vase and the contiguous body of the cover 
ornamented with delicately traced, perfectly proportioned Greek 


fret. 
Height, 1214, inches; width, 5 inches. 


85—WuitE JApE BuppHA—ENTHRONED 


A massive figure, seated, the hands folded on the crossed legs, 
boldly and freely sculptured in flowing robes, the breast orna- 
mented with jewels in low relief, the long ear-lobes of wisdom 
undercut. The jade is of pure, dense gray tone throughout— 
opaque, with translucence in the ear-lobes and other thin places— 
and smoothly polished. Mounted on a lacquer thalamus, gilded, 
the tall gilt back carrying a filigree border of Buddhistic emblems 
ornamented in turquoise enamel. 
Height, 9144 inches; width, 634 inches. 
Height, with throne, 1514 inches. 


86—Transtucent Moss-GREEN JADE VASE WITH COVER 


Elongated flattened ovoid body on a low pedestal-foot, with 
sloping, flask-like shoulders and broad, shallow neck. Rare jade 
of a rich, dark moss-green, with the quality—unusual in this 
hue—of translucence. Elaborately carved in low relief on all 
sides with dragon motives and scrolls, the heads of two con- 
ventionalized dragons appearing on each broad face with a Shou 
character between them. Two scaled dragons carved in the 
round form side-handles on the neck, each sustaining a heavy 
loose ring. Another dragon, undercut in full relief, with two 
small loose rings, forms the handle of the cover, and both cover 
and the neck of the vase are surrounded by downward-pointing 
borders of conventional palm leaves. 


Height, 131%, inches; width, 5 inches. 


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87—Green Jape Vase with Cover ann Sranp (All of Jade) 


Dense gray-green jade in the form of a pilgrim-bottle body but 
with broad, elliptical neck, on an elliptical pedestal-foot, with 
two fixed side-handles on the neck. Both faces occupied by 
large circular medallions of floral motives, embracing lotus con- 
ventionalizations, surmounted on the neck by a deep palm-leaf 
border carved and engraved with fret and dragon scrolls. The 
pierced and undercut S-handles are carved with intaglio scrolls. 
The base and cover are in jade of a more pronounced green, 
though with grayish trend, the base carved and pierced with 
scrolls and floral borders, and the cover surmounted by an open- 
work handle formed of four dragons carved in the round and 
facing the four directions, their heads united and sustaining 
four loose rings and their scrolled tails forming a relief border 
encircling the body of the cover. An inscription incised within 
the foot declares the piece a Ch’ien-lung treasure. 


Height, complete, 18 inches. 


88—Watt Vase or Lacauerep Pewrer (K’ang-hsi) 


In the form of the half of a globular pear-shape vase on a low 
foot and tapering to a short neck with spreading lip. The sub- 
stance is pewter, coated with a rich, full-bodied cherry-color 
lacquer, and the whole was made in imitation of the Lang-yao 
sang-de-beufs—successful in form though not in color, but quite 
interesting. Back lacquered in black. 

Height, 10 inches. 


89—ImreriaL Enamet Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


Squat pear-shape with elongated and full neck, on low foot. 
Gilded bronze of resonant, musical tone, decorated in famille 
verte enamel colors on a gray and pearly-white enamel ground 
which discloses pinkish hues. The decoration consists of land- 
scapes and. water, with mountains, trees, a pavilion, rocks and 
a boat, distributed over the surface, in different tones of green 
with yellow, aubergine and coral-red. ‘The enamel foot bears a 
four-character mark declaring the piece to have been made at 
the order of the Emperor K’ang-hsi. 


Height, 7 inches. 


90—Pair or Unusuar ILLumMINATED PEWTER JARS WITH COVERS 


These examples are rarely found. The jars, ovoid, of the 
familiar ginger-jar shape with mandarin covers, are formed of 
pewter and the entire surface is painted in oil-lacquers with 
castles, pagodas, landscape and figures in blue, green, vermilion, 
ivory-white, old-rose and gold, on a black ground. Eighteenth 
century. 


Height, 91 inches. 


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ANCIENT BRONZES. 


“Ancient bronzes are divided by Chinese archeologists into two great classes, the 
first class including the relics of the three ancient dynasties, Hsia, Shang and Chou; 
the second class those of the Ch’in, Han and later dynasties. The year B.C. 221, in 
which Ch’in Shih Huang proclaimed himself ‘the first Emperor,’ is the dividing line 
between the two classes. : 

“King Wu was the founder of the Chou dynasty (B.C. 1122-249), to which 
period most of the ancient bronzes with inscriptions are attributed by archeologists 
of the modern school in China. A smaller proportion is referred to the Shang 
dynasty with short inscriptions of archaic pictorial script, in which the name of the 
deceased to whom the piece was dedicated is generally one of the cyclical characters. 
The preceding Hsia dynasty is meanwhile left unrepresented, in that no inscribed 
piece in modern collections can certainly be referred to it.”—Chinese Art, by S. W. 
BusHett, C.M.G., B.Sc., M.D. 

The bronzes in this collection are all of the Shang, Chou and Han dynasties, 


"with a single exception belonging to the Sung and a few of the mirrors which date 


from the T’ang. 


HSIA B.C. 2205-1767 
SHANG B.C. 1766-1122 
‘ CHOU B.C. 1122-255 
CH’IN Began B.C. 221 
HAN Began B.C. 206 
TVANG A.D. 618-906 
SUNG A.D. 960-1179 


91—Prain Bronze Mirror (Han) 


Circular form; left unadorned save for molded lip and outline 
medallion ring; almost wholly covered on all surfaces with a 
dull malachite patina and brown earthy incrustations. 


Diameter, 514 inches. 


92—Two Rounp Bronze Mirrors (Han) 


One, covered throughout with a brown patina, has a decoration 
of sea monsters, and birds perched and flying, among. bunches 
of grapes, vines and foliations, and a conventional foliate border. 
The other, its mirror surface thickly incrusted with green, is 
further coated and incrusted on its top with similar color, cover- 
ing its decoration of conventional relief and hatch. 


Diameters, respectively, 334 inches and 31, inches. 


93—Turee Smartt Rounp Bronze Mirrors (T”ang) 


One, coated with a black-brown patina and thickly incrusted in 
green and brown, carrying a decoration of young chickens in 
bas-relief with hatch and pointed borders; another, with a deco- 
ration of conventional birds in fine relief outline, bosses and a 


point border, exhibiting gray-olive patina and a mass of heavy 
incrustations in green, yellow, red and black. The third dis- 
plays a thin patina of light, silvery-gray tone, with malachite, 
gray and earthy-brown incrustations. 


Diameters, respectively, 334, inches, 34%, inches and 3 inches. 


94—REMARKABLE SMALL Bronze Mirror (Han) 


Circular, its polished flat surface covered with one of the richest 
of black patinas, the true “mirror-black” of admirable quality. 
The rim rises in a flange, protective of the decoration on the top 

- surface, which consists of the grapevine in bearing and mythical 
sea monsters, arranged in a central medallion and border sep- 
arated by a molded ring, the design modeled in low and high 
relief. It is largely incrusted in pale green, some small patches 
of which attach to the opposite mirror surface. 


Diameter, 3 inches. 


95—Smatt Rounp Bronze Mirror (Han) 


With beveled edge, and a decoration of four tigers in outline 
relief with geometrical and foliate designs, point, hatch and 
dot borders; coated with a gray-black and lead-colored patina, 
and pitted in malachite-hued disintegration. 


Diameter, 44/, inches. 


96—Bronze Rounp Mirror (Han) 


Decorated in light line-relief and incision with bird and dragon 
conventionalizations and hatch and serrated borders. Gray and 
malachite-green patina with heavy malachite incrustations. 


Diameter, 5 inches. 


97—Bronze Rounp Mirror (Han) 


Elaborately ornamented with the “Four Gods” decoration and 
accessories, the signs of the Chinese zodiac, a dragon and phoenix 
scroll border in archaic conventionalization, and an outer border 
of foliar scroll, variously modeled in high and low relief and 
incised. ‘The whole covered with a patina of dark steel-gray. 


Diameter, 434 inches. 


98—GreEN Bronze Mirror (Han) 


Circular form, the mirror 
surface evenly coated with a 
brilliant olive patina of va- 
rious shadings. A _ similar 
patina, but with unctuous 
surface of dull luster, is al- 
most uniformly distributed 
over the decorative top of 
the disk, which is adorned 
with sea-horses and other 
animals and large birds, 
among bunches of grapes 
and vines, within a double 
point border. 


Diameter, 41/, inches. 


99—Circutar Bronze Mirror (Han) 


Profusely decorated in high and low relief modeling with luxuri- 
ant bunches of grapes and rambling vines, among which sea 
monsters disport, song birds perch and fly, and butterflies are 
seen on the wing. Coated with a lustrous black patina, with 


slight greenish incrustations. 
Diameter, 434, inches. 


100—Bronze Rounp Mirror (Han) 


Thin, with beveled edge and depressed medallion upper surface, 
and coated throughout with a black patina tinged gray and pitted 
in malachite fracture. Decoration, conventional birds and geo- 
metrical forms in outline relief, with bosses and bold scrolls, 
point and hatch borders. 


Diameter, 51, inches. 


101—Dark Bronze Rounp Mirror (Han) 


Slightly convex, with beveled rim, and depressed-medallion upper 
surface within an inclined border or shoulder. Relief decoration 
involving the conventional dragon, tiger, turtle and bird, with 
an archaic animal-scroll border. The whole covered with a rich 
patina of deep tone verging upon black and of unctuous surface, 


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with delicate malachite incrustation. 
Diameter, 6 inches. 


102—Larcz Se niy Ae Convex Mrrror (Wet) 


Circular, its mirror. surface exhibiting a silver-gray Stir with 
patches of malachite, red and sandy-brown. The ornate deco- 
ration of the top, in cire perdu modeling with subsequent 
tooling, involves the dragon, pheenix and tiger, the turtle within 
the coils of a serpent, animal masks, sundry borders and an 
inscription informing the user that in it she may see herself as 
beautiful as the flowers, the stars in the sky—with other ex- 
quisite hyperbole. Even patina of silvery tone, with light in- 
crustations of malachite hue and the pale brown of dry earth. 


Diameter, 8 inches. 


103—Bevet-ever Rovnp Bronze Mrrror (Han) 


Coated on both surfaces with an olive-gray patina of varying 
tone, incrusted and pitted in malachite; decoration, birds and 
geometrical devices in outline relief, with bosses, and hatch and 


successive and varied angular borders. 
Diameter, 6 inches. 


104—Bronze Fourte Mirror (Tang) 


Round, the scalloped rim thickened as a narrow flat border for 
the upper surface, which carries a lion and peacock decoration 
in bas-relief, covered with a black patina and sundry malachite 
and rusty-red incrustations. Varied patina and incrustations 


on the mirror side. 
Diameter, 614, inches. 


105—Larce Bronze Foriar Mirror (Tang) 


Circular, the foliated rim beveled and thickened at the top; the 
smooth upper surface decorated with peony sprays modeled in 
relief and engraved. Both upper and lower surface of mirror 
quality; the metal of clear, ringing tone. Luminous silvery 
patina, with incrustations manifold and varicolored. 


Diameter, 914 inches. 


106—Sitvery Bronze Mirror (Han) 


Circular and heavy, and retaining much of its mirror quality 
amid incrustations of malachite-green and rusty brown hue, the 
light color of the metal resulting from the quantity of tin used 
in the alloy. On the top, within a central medallion of beaded 
outline, the favorite decoration of mythical sea-animals molded 
in bold relief among grapes and vines, the medallion surrounded 
by a band of various birds and flying insects also amid grapes, 
and within the rim a narrow conventional border of detached 
floral forms. 


Diameter, 6 inches. 


107—Heavy Crrcurar Bronze Mirror (Han) 


Convex, with beveled rim, the upper surface sloping downward 
from a sharp edge to a large depressed medallion with elaborate 
ornamentation. The sloping surface carries a band of refined 
scroll, alternating and repetitive, and an inner serrated border. 
i The major decoration embodies in bold relief a representation 
| of Hsi Wang Mu, “Royal Mother of the West” and Queen of 
: the Fairies, and Tung Wang Kung (whose title as regnant in 
equally imaginative realms of the East is imitative), with at- 
tendants, besides an archaic dragon and a tree—possibly the 
peach tree of the genil, which grew in Hsi Wang Mu’s delect- 
able dominion in the Kun-lun Mountains and blossomed once in 
three thousand years, conferring that span of life on those who 
ate of its fruit. Rich olive-brown and grayish patina, verging 
upon black, with malachite pittings. 


Diameter, 74/ inches. 


108—Larce Bronze Four Mirror (Tang) 


Circular, with foliate perimeter; a thin, flat disk, of sonorous 
quality, coated with a rich dark brown patina and gray-olive, 
malachite and dull reddish incrustations. The decoration, in 
bas-relief, includes an Arhat and a peacock, with trees, scrolls 


and symbols. 
Diameter, 81, inches. 


109—Bronze Lization Cup (Sung) 


Tall form, of irregular horn-like aspect, 
the lip slightly pointed in leaf-shape. 
Lower body in the form of a seated 
pheenix, the head projecting forward and 
the long feathers modeled and carried 
almost to the top of the back of the cup. 
Rich, lustrous patina of deep, dark-olive 
green, with reddish earthy incrustations. 


Height, 61, inches. 


110—Dark Bronze Beaker (Han) 


Narrow spreading foot, slender body and 
trumpet lip. Lateral flutings above and 
below the mid-section, which is adorned 
with ridges, bosses and incised scroll-fret ; 
similar ornamentation on the base, with- 
out the ridges. Lustrous patina with notes of verdigris, olive, 
malachite and moss and the green of boiled tea-leaves with 
gray and blue-gray fleckings, amid reflecting surfaces so deep 
and dark in tone as to be almost a luminous black. 


Height, 834 inches. 


J11—Bronze Rovunp Mirror (Han) 


Thin disk, slightly convex; steel-gray patina with pale-olive notes 
and roughish incrustations on the mirror side. On the top, 
within a depressed central medallion, the “red crow” and the 
signs of the zodiac, in light relief, with bosses and a hatch 
border; the medallion surrounded by a narrow point border and 
a wide band of bold scroll. Dark patina and thick, grayish- 
green incrustations. 
Diameter, 64, inches. 


112—Bronze CAMEL-BELL 


Ovoidal, somewhat flattened, outlined in half-round ridges, which 
are further used as boundaries near the top for four small sec- 
tions or panels in form of a band, two holding four bosses and 
two three bosses each. Short quadrangular neck with cross-bar 
and chain for suspension. Rich, unctuous, thick patina of olive 
and malachite notes, with somber mottlings. Carved frame-stand. 


Height, 7 inches; with stand, 14 inches. 


-118—Uniave Ceremontat Bronze Cup wir Spout (Han) 


On three short monster-legs. Low, shallow, palmate form, the 


leaf-tip extended to-form the spout. Incised scroll-fret band 
beneath the lip, from it depending palmate medallions with in- 
cised scroll decoration. Under the spout two archaic dragons 
surmounting the ogre face. The legs are small monsters with 
human form and bird head, supporting the cup as caryatids. 
Cup form and medallions alike carry out and suggest the mon- 
ster’s bird head. Dark olive, brown, light green and mottled 


patina with iron-rust incrustation. 


Height, 3 inches; diameter, 6 inches. 


114—Rep Bronze Beaker (Han) 


Base and mid-section with an elaborated, finely incised scroll-fret 
and bosses, with the addition to the midband of two vertical 
ridges. Smooth patina of light-bronze and dull cherry-red, with 
green-turquoise and gray fleckings, and rich green and dark 


olive notes in the denser parts. 
Height, 10 inches. 


115—Bronze Trieop SacririciaL Vessex wirh Hanpie (Han) 


More or less in the shape of a small frying-pan, with deepened 
bottom, standing on three slightly curved spear-head legs with 
points downward. Long curved handle finishing with a dragon- 
head. 'Turquoise-green patina with patches of cobalt-blue. 
Height, 5 inches. 


116—Bronze Vase or Fruarrenep Prar-sHaPe (Chow) 


With broad, truncated neck and 
deep foot. The neck is sur- 
rounded by a band of incised and 
relief ornament comprehending 
the fret and open scrolls, battle- 
axes and the symbolized features 
of the tiger or ogre. The “tiger’s 
eye” recurs in a narrow scroll 
band about the foot. The entire 
surface of the jar is covered by a 
thick patina of rich malachite 
tones, mingled with warm, red- 
dish-brown and iron-rust hue, and 
various incrustations. 


Height, 614 inches; width, 54%, inches. 


i 117—Bronze Beaker (Han) 
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Conventional form, with scarcely definition between the mud- 
section and the trumpet lip or mouth; in the size of a large 
drinking-cup easily handled. The flaring neck left plain, the 
lower sections displaying an archaic scroll ornament deeply in- 
cised. Olive-brown patina of dull luster, with dark-olive and 
grayish-malachite patches, overborne by a denser wrugo of cin- 


nabar-lacquer hue. 
Height, 9 inches. 


118—Bronze Sacrirician Wine Jvuc with STRAIGHT SIDE-HANDLE 


(Han) 


Compressed-spherical form on three stocky legs, with hinged 
cover, and short spout in the model of a conventional dove’s-head, 
| the upper beak swinging on a hinge. Soft olive-brown and rich 
malachite-green patina. 


Height, 6 inches; width, 10% inches. 


119—Bronze Incense Burner (Han) 


| Circular, with bulging body, everted lip and deep, slightly-spread- 
i | ing foot; two dragon-head loop-handles with quadrilateral drops. 
| Decoration, the lineaments of the t’ao t’ieh ogre in bold relief. 
Thickly incrusted in tones of dull brick-red and malachite- and 
turquoise-green from prolonged subterranean lodgment. 


Width, 10 inches. 


120—Bronze Lisation Cur (Han) 


Helmet-shape bowl, with side 
handle, on three triangular 
spear-head feet. Two stems 
rismg from the rim termi- 
nate in knobs. On the body 
a band of fret-work and 
scrolls, with ring and bead 
borders. The entire ex- 
terior surface covered with 
a mottled green, dull-red and 
silver-gray patina, with 
green incrustations. 


Height, 8 inches; width, 71, inches. 


121—Bronze Trivop Jar (Han) 


Small caldron on straight 
(solid) tubular legs with two 
loop handles rising-from the rim. Decoration, a single band of 
incised scroll with ridges and bosses. Patina of rich, dark moss- 
green with rusty and mahogany-brown mottlings. Has teakwood 
cover with carved white jade knob-handle. 

Height, 91% inches. 


122—Semi-cLopuLtar Bronze OFFERING-sTAND (Ch'in) 


With slightly contracted lip and wide mouth, on a tall, gracefully 
curving and spreading foot. Two side-handles of cylindrical 
section. Adorned in bands of incised scroll fret. Patina of rich 
dark green with malachite tones and mahogany-brown. 


Height, 714, inches. 


123—AnciENT Bronze QuapRILATERAL Jar (Han) 


Swelling sides with sharp edges, short neck with thickened square 
lip, and slightly spreading quadrangular base. Two animal heads 
in relief on the shoulder. Rough, coarse patina of pale tur- 
quoise-blue and the green of the washed turquoise, interspersed 
with patches of iron-rust—the deposit from the disintegration of 
some adjacent object or material—and here and there outcrop- 
pings of the original metal little altered in surface or hue. 


Height, 11 inches; diameter, 6 inches. 


124—Bronze Treasure Jar (Chou) 


Squat ovoid body with thick neck and wide, flaring mouth. On 
the neck a band of incised fret overlain by heavy raised scrolls 
has at opposite sides two animal heads in high relief, and below 
it are two sharp raised rings, which are repeated on the foot. 
Dull patina of pewter-like quality and gray tone, throughout, 
with heavy red and green incrustations. In the interior an in- 
cised inscription saying the jar is to hold the family’s treasures. 


Height, 5% inches; diameter, 51% inches. 


Almost the exact counterpart of this vase is recorded and illustrated in the 
Hsi Ch’ing Ku Chien, the catalogue of the Imperial collection of bronzes in 
the palace at Peking, published in forty-two folio volumes by the Emperor 
CWien-lung in 1751. 


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~125—Bronze Coverep Jar (Han) 


~ Globular body, thick neck, slightly spreading mouth with inturned 
lip, and raised, almost straight foot. Body marked by two plain, 
narrow raised bands, that at the shoulder sustaining two small 
loop handles for suspension. On the cover a raised quatrefoil. 
Surface covered by a smooth patina intermingled with slight in- 
crustations—the whole of a predominant deep cherry-red tone, 
mottled with green, gray and black, the interior of the cover 
showing a solid green. 


Height, 8 inches; diameter, 534 inches. 


126—Bronze Sacririciat Tripop Jar with Cover (Han) 


In the form of a small caldron on three conventional dragon-head 
legs spreading in concave curve, with two upright loop-handles 
and a cover having three upstanding loops and a loose-ring han- 
| ; dle. Incised ornamentation of archaic dragon and geometric 
scrolls. Olive and malachite patina with roughish incrustations. 


Height, 7%, inches. 


| 127—Heavy Bronze Tripop Jar (Chow) 


| Of bulbous form with two upright rim handles and plain cylin- 
H drical legs. A scroll-fret border beneath the slightly projecting 
rim, the scroll used further below to outline the bold relief decora- 
i tion which occupies almost the entire surface. This consists of 
the emblematic cow’s head with the detached horns, over each leg 
| of the tripod, and a pair of descending archaic dragons in each 
| of the spaces between the heads, the reliefs displaying sharply 
incised details. Above one of the heads appears in relief the 
character for “grandson,” indicating that the bronze was to be 
retained and handed down in the family as an heirloom. The 
| interior has the Chou mark and also an animal mark, apparently — 
q the elephant. Varying patina, largely of a celadon hue, with 
i touches of iron-red, and black patches. Teakwood cover, with 


jade handle carved and undercut with bird and animal forms and 
branches. 


ees bronze, 8 inches (with stand and cover, 12 inches); diameter, 634, 
inches. 


128—Rare Bronze SacetrictaL WINE VesseL (Chou) 


Bulbous body on four slender columnar legs, with loop-handle 
springing from a dragon-head, and straight, tapering spout ; 
dome cover with small loop handle, the cover attached by links 
to the main handle. At the side beneath the rim, two animal 
heads in relief. Covered with a lustrous patina of dark olive- 
brown and greenish tone, spread with the characteristic mala- 
chite, earthen-gray and brown, blue and iron-rust red incrusta- 
tions of long interment, the patina and incrustations extending 
to the interior. On the body beneath the handle, an incised mark 
with the characters representing son and grandson, betokening 
family succession and ancestral devotion, the same inscription 
recurring in the interior of the attached cover. 


Height, 9 inches. 


129—Wine Semi-cLropuLar Bronze Bown. (Han) 


Its top slightly contracted, with everted lip and three short thick 
cabriole feet. Body encircled by a single raised rope, below which 
is a detached fret band and pointed border; the detached fret | 
repeated in a band below the lip. Warm olive patina enhanced | 
by patches of rich black. 


Diameter, 10 inches; height, 51 inches. ' 


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130—Ancrent Bronze Ceremoniat Vesset (Chow) 


Of squat beaker form with wide mouth, flaring lip and spreading 
foot. A singularly interesting specimen for study of the effects 
of time and inhumation. The jar is for the most part covered 
by a thick coating of massed incrustations, tufa-like in effect 
but green, the fecund green of dense pond-scum. In places the 
incrustations, disintegrating the metal, replace it with substance 
of their own verdant hue; elsewhere a fine black patina with soft 
malachite mottlings coats the surface; and again where incrusta- 
tion has been prevented or in course of time removed, as in the 
bottom of the interior, the purity of the original surface is 
revealed. A fret band above a bold ring, on the neck, containing 
four phenixes in bas-relief and accentuated by two outstanding 
monster-heads, forms the sole decoration. The maker’s name is 
incised in the interior of the bottom. The stand is inlaid with 
silver. | 
Height, 7 inches; width, 7 inches. 


- -\181—Bronzze Trivop Incense Burner or THE T'HOusAND Dracons 


(Han) 


With two loop side handles and short cabriole legs. Sonorous 
bronze with a clear ringing note. The chief decoration consists 
of a broad band bearing an intricate interlacement of an in- 
cised ribbon-scroll involving a conventionalized dragon form in 
innumerable repetitions, the same motive being repeated in a 
narrower band below a rope girdle. Soft patina of steel-gray and 
silvery tone, mingled with green; and green incrustations. Teak 
cover with jade knob. 


Height, 71, inches; diameter, 7 inches. 


1382—Wine Circurar Bow. (Han) 


Of thin bronze with a clear ringing tone. The lip finishes with an 
upright sharp edge. The body is left plain but for a simple 
ridged band about the middle with two animal-head handles. En- 
tire exterior covered with a patina of turquoise-green, varying 
toward blue, in places smooth as the original metal, elsewhere 
overlain by green, blue and clay-yellow incrustations. 


Diameter, 111% inches. 


133—Bronze SacririciaAL Jar witH Cover (Han) 


Spherical body on a deep foot; wide neck; flattened dome cover 
with ring handle; two animal-head loop-and-ring handles at the 
shoulder. Patina and thin incrustations in tones of mahogany- 
brown, russet, malachite and dark swamp-green. 


Height, 11% inches. 


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134—Tatt Bronze Beaxer (Han) 


Of slender stem with trum- 
pet neck and flaring lip and 
lightly spreading foot. An 
incised fret, interrupted by 
ancient animal symbols in 
relief, enwinds base and 
body, which, separated by a 
plain band bearing two 
rings, are each divided into 
sections by four vertical 
ridges. Conventional palm 
leaves in relief, outlined by 
the continued fret motive, 
spread up the neck. Com- 
pletely covered with a sil- 
very and brown patina and 
green incrustations. Teak- 
wood base-rim, in lieu of 
stand. 


Height, 1134 inches. 


1385—Heavy Bronze Trreop Jar (Chou) 


Of deep globular form with thick everted lip, two upright loop 
side handles and plain cabriole feet. Encircled beneath the lip 
by a band of deeply chiseled bold ornament in lateral-scroll form, 
whose details are more or less obscured by heavy incrustations 
from long burial and the thick, rich, unctuous patina which covers 
both exterior and interior of the vessel. This brilliant patina is 
of a full-bodied, rich, deep green tone, mottled with paler green 
and sandy-brown and occasional spots and patches of the original 
metal. Interior bears an incised inscription in sixteen characters, 
the inscription reading as made by the emperor or king (prob- 
ably Ch’éng Wang, third monarch of the Chou), and indicating 
that the bronze was cast by the Duke of Chou for use as a 
sacrificial vessel in the worship of his ancestors. The Duke 
of Chou, one of the greatest statesmen of antiquity, was uncle 
and regent of King Ch’éng, who came to the throne at the age 
of thirteen years. Teak cover, with knob handle of jade carved 
in relief and undercut with cranes and lotus flowers and buds. 


Height, 7 inches; diameter, 7 inches. 


136—Rare Bronze Water Borrie (Ch'in) 


In graceful bulbous gourd-form with 
full, elongated curving neck, capped 
by a cover modeled in the form of 
a pheenix with raised head, the beak 
hinged and forming the spout. The 
cover is attached by a chain to a 
movable vertical grip-handle swing- 
ing in fixed loops on the back of the 
bottle—or the side where the neck 
makes its concave curve. Orna- 
mented with depressed borders and 
bands in ovate or meander-grill 
pattern, the interspaces filled with 
incised angular and sinuous scrolls. 
Coated with a rich, unctuous and 
brilliant malachite erugo, mingled 
with its-lesser patina of brown, iron- 
rust and olive tones. This piece has 


not been buried. 
Height, 1234 inches. 


137—Green Bronze PivcrRim-BoTrLe 


Vase (Han) 


With wide circular mouth and two 
animal-head loop-and-ring shoulder-handles; on quadrilateral 
foot. The broad faces molded in ovate form; without other 
ornament. The entire surface coated with a rich olive patina with 
notes of moss and brown fleckings. 

| Height, 11 inches; width, 121%, inches. 


138—Bronze Semi-crosutar Derr Bown (Song-yi; Han) 


With everted lip; on deep spreading foot. Beneath lip and about 
the foot, wide bands of archaic dragon-scroll incised and in relief. 
Between them the body of the bowl is covered with a lattice of 
incised fret, with nipple-bosses issuing from the centers of the 
fretted squares. Under the lip are four animal-head masks in 
relief. Exterior and interior coated with an unctuous patina of 
olive tones, mingled with iron-rust brown. Ancient inscription 


in the interior. 
Diameter, 934, inches. 


| 139—Heavy Bronze Trreop Crrcutar Disu (Chou) 


| With thick quadrangular loop handles springing from the thin 
| everted lip, and elephantine legs. Bowl, encircled midway by 
| a plain narrow band left clear, is covered above and below with 
b| a band of angular fret incised and in relief, the pattern in the 
| lower band being the heavier, while bolder scroll forms appear 
| on the heavy rounded knees. Green patina and thick earthy 
| incrustations, the patina on one of the legs taking the hue of 
the glaze on a tea-dust vase. The carved teakwood cover has 
a carved coral-jade knob handle. 


Height, 6%, inches (with cover, 81%, inches); width, 8 inches. 


140—UniaueE Bronze Sacriricirat Vesset (Han) 


| In spherical form, comprised of a bowl with equivalent cover. 
On the bowl are two looped side-handles and on the cover two 
similar ones, the cover being supplied also with three additional 
upstanding loops in a tier above its paired loops. Bowl and 
cover ornamented with bands of a bold scroll in broad surface- 
outline, the interspacing filled with a finely incised angular fret. 
Olive-green and yellow, earthy-brown, iron-rust and malachite 
patina and incrustations, with markings indicating that its burial 


was in watery precincts. 
Height, 7 inches; diameter, 11 inches. 


141—Bronze AnimaL WINE VessEL (Han) 


_ Of ancient Chou type, in the form of a mythological rhinoceros 
known as hsi; used for holding ceremonial wine in sacrificial 
worship. The features are boldly modeled, and the body, legs 
and.tail are covered with wandering incised scrolls, the breast 
showing an incised ogre-mask. Covered with a smooth, fine 
patina of dark olive, relieved by brown touches and spots of 


brighter green. 
Height, 8%4 inches; length, 13% inches. 


142— Bronze INcENsE Burner with Cover (Chou) 


Cireular, with two animal-head loop-and-drop handles, on a 
flanged foot; ovoidal bowl with everted lip. Decoration, the 
tao tieh ogre lineaments and archaic dragons in bold relief, 
with scrolled-fret interspacing. Variegated patina and incrusta- 
tions with predominant green tone. Carved teak cover with 


carved jade knob handle. 
Width, 1114 inches. 


143—Fine Heavy Bronze Vase (Chou) 


With low swelling body tapering slowly to a short thick neck, 
on a spreading foot. Neck surrounded by a dragon band, raised 
and sculptured in relief with four land dragons facing each other 
in pairs, the band expanding into two plain loops or “handles” 
for suspension. On the body another band of scrolled land 
dragons in bold relief carving, below a raised loop border com- 
prehending within the ascending loops further bold relief scrolls 
—the interspaces in both bands and border occupied by fret 
| scrolls in hair-line relief. Beautiful patina of rich brown and 
| iron-red and a dark malachite-green, with thick incrustations. 


Inscription inside of bottom. z 
Height, 934, inches. 


144—Drrp Wine Bronze Bow. (Han) 


Semi-globular with everted sharp lip; on low foot. Circled by a 
tripartite molded band which sustains two animal-head loop- 
handles with loose rings. Exterior and interior covered with a 
patina of malachite-green in many tones, both small and rough, 


and carrying many incrustations. 
Diameter, 1114 inches. 


145—Heavy Bronze Beaker (Shang) 


BE, With broad body, spreading lip and deep foot. The upper part, 

| marked only by two rings, is covered outside and inside with a 

: mottled patina of dark neutral tones, ranging from various dull 
greens to dark mahogany browns, with notes of rich, polished 
black. The lower body and foot, each divided into four sections 
by vertical ridges, are decorated with symbolic devices in bold 
relief over a ground of incised fret, and display a soft brown 
patina with many green and gray incrustations. 


Height, 10 inches; spread of lip, 7, inches. 


146—Bronze Gropurtar Jar with Cover (Han) 


Short wide neck with a molded band about it, a broad flat band 
molded around the body; convex and cylindrical foot; archaic 
animal-heads in low relief sustaining two loose rings as side- 
handles. Dome-shaped cover with three upright handles. Patina 
and incrustations of dull brick red, reddish-brown and various 
greens, with exposed patches of dull golden-bronze with slight 


patina. 
Height, 13 inches. 


147—Very Rare Mirror-BronzeE Braker oF ANCIENT CEREMONIAL 


AND Sacririciat Usace (Shang) 


Broad neck and body, wide, gracefully flaring mouth, and deep, 
slightly spreading foot which turns under and finishes with a 
sharp edge. The middle section is decorated with two bands 
of a bold and interesting scroll in sharp relief, the interspacing 
filled with a fine, incised scroll-fret. Each band carries eight 
small bosses and is divided into two sections by low vertical 
ridges. ‘The surface is otherwise plain except for two rings each 
on neck and foot. This unusual vessel, which probably was used 
for the holding of wine, is almost completely and uniformly 
covered by an erugo of marked smoothness and solidity of 
texture, of an opulent malachite-green with many modulations 
of rich hue. Where the substance of the vase is seen it presents 
a smooth, soft, pearl-gray and silvery surface, with a patina of 
elusive coloring—here touched with the light green of moss, there 
with a pale ethereal blue; again a smoky silver will appear, or 
the gray will mingle with black liked mottled marble. The rare 


gray hue is due to the greater admixture of tin in the alloy, this 
bronze being known as mirror-bronze or mirror-metal. 


Height, 9% inches; diameter, 8 inches. 


An inscription incised in the interior of the bottom tells us that the Prince 
Back Yee commanded the beaker to be made. The Prince Back Yee was 
a notable figure of the Shang dynasty. When that was overthrown by the 
Chou the conqueror offered the Prince preferment, but he could not take the 
bread of the new lord and voluntarily starved to death. Similar vases are 
recorded in the Hsi Ch’ing Ku Chien, the catalogue of the Imperial collection 
of bronzes in the palace at Peking, published in forty-two folio volumes by 
the Emperor Ch’ien-lung in 1751, and numerous pieces are illustrated there 
which were made at the command of this romantic martyr of Chinese an- 
tiquity. 


148—Bronze Tripop Jar (Chou) 


Recently unearthed. Circular, on three tubular legs, the ovoidal 
bowl contracting slightly toward the rim; two upright loop 
handles. The shape of the bowl is a variation from the usual 
type found in tripod jars. Dark-brown, malachite and blue 
patina with earthy incrustations from burial in sacrificial service. 


Height, 10 inches. 


149—Bronze QuapRiItaTERAL Vase (Han) 


From a square, slightly flaring base, the sides swell boldly and 
recede again to a short square neck with flanged lip. Two animal- 
mask handles in relief with loops and loose rings. Over the whole 
smooth, unornamented surface of the vase a thin, smooth patina 


of malachite and dark green and mellow brown. 
Height, 13 inches. 


150—Gitpep Bronze Bortie-rorm Vase (Han) 


Body of spherical form, slightly 
compressed, encircled by a molded 
equatorial band, on a slightly- 
spreading foot and supporting a 
tall, straight, full neck with a molded 
lip. Heavy bronze, retaining con- 
siderable vestiges of its ancient, 
original gilding, and heavily coated 
with malachite, mellow-brown and 
olive-gray patina and incrustations. 
On the shoulder a long incised in- 
scription which reveals that the vase 
was made in the first year of Yung- 
shih of the Han dynasty, the year 
16 A.D. of European reckoning. 


Height, 1214 inches. 


151—Tautt Bronze Ovow Vase (Han) 
Thick, short neck, slightly spreading 


foot and two animal-head side han- 
dles. The surface is embellished 
with five decorative bands, lightly 
incised, involving cloud-scrolls, a meander and other designs, a 
ridge and furrows intervening. Brown and green patina, with 
rust and brown earth incrustations. 


Height, 121% inches. 


152—Heavy Sonorovus Bronze Beaxer-sHarep Vase (Han) 


With spreading foot and wide-flaring mouth, each formal sec- 
tion—base, midband and neck—divided into four parts by broad 
and deep vertical ridges which are adorned with short incised 
scrolls. Decoration, the t’ao tieh ogre lineaments and archaic 
dragons in relief, and further embellished with carefully incised 
scroll-fret which is continued throughout the interspaces. On 
the neck the decoration is comprised within slightly raised broad 
palmations pointing upward. 

Height, 1114 inches. 


153—Mirror-Bronze Crrcutar Jar (Han) 


Thick, spreading lip, two deer-head loop side handles with drop, 
and deep foot. Encircled beneath the lip by a raised and incised 
band of scrolls and halbert-heads, with the “tiger’s eye” in low 
relief and two bold projecting animal masks. The motive is re- 
peated in a band about the base, with the ogre lineaments re- 
curring in low relief. Time has invested both the exterior and 
interior surfaces with a smooth, soft, dark patina, varying 
from gun-metal hue through gray olives and rich browns to a 
matt black. An incised symbol in this piece signifies everything 
in the universe, and apparently indicates the use of the vessel 
in. the ritual of ancestor worship. Teak cover with green jade 


knob handle. 


Height, 5%, inches; diameter, 71/, inches. 


154—Gitt Bronze Borrie-suaprep Vase (After-Han) 


Squat-ovoidal body on a lightly-spreading flanged foot, with tall 
slender neck, bulbous in hexafoil expansion beneath the short lip 
and circled midway by a molded and flanged band. The smooth 
surface displaying an olive-brown patina and broad surfaces of 
its original Roman-gold splendor. 


Height, 17 inches. 


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155—AnciEnt Ovare Swixerne Jar (Shang) 


Heavy sonorous bronze, of flattened, elongated melon-form, with 
a swinging handle in rope design and a low spreading base which 
is marked by two rings. Otherwise plain, it is ornamented at the 
shoulder with a wide band of angular fret, incised between two 
narrow borders of repeated small raised circles, the band inter- 
rupted by two animal-masks in relief. In the interior an incised 
inscription containing the name of an animal, apparently the wild 
boar or sheep, and the symbols for spear, grandfather and 
father—a formula used, it is said, as a godspeeding and ad- 
vance felicitation to those departing for the wars. Covered 
with a rich, unctuous patina of a deep, full malachite-green, 
mottled in red, brown, gray-olive and iron-rust hues, the patina 
and incrustations largely covering the interior also. 

The teakwood cover has a Chou carved jade handle in the form 
of a horse and a deer, the deer holding in its mouth branches of 
the sacred fungus—like itself emblematic of longevity. 


Height (with cover), 1014 inches. 


156—Axciext Broxze Trirop Ixcexse Burner (Han) 


With silver-gilt ribbon-scroll openwork top. Looped side handles 
with dreps and pierced-scroll tops; the squat and hollow cabriole 
legs also formed of pierced scroll work. The low circular bowl, 
with slightly contracted neck and heavy everted lip, is adorned 
with a waistband of incised angular and scroll fret in two tiers, 
between two raised ropes, a pointed border below it—the band 
and border being repeated in reduced scale on the short neck. 
Enveloped in a caressing patina of rich and varied olive surface, 
with blackening patches and brilliant vivid green fleckings 


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Height. 54, inchez; diameter, $ inchez; width with handles, 11 inches. 


157—Gitpep Bronze Granp Covre (Han) 


Deep, semi-globular bowl with everted lip, on a cylindrical stand- 
ard with a wide-spreading flat foot. Originally a sacrificial vessel. 
An incised inscription of thirty-five characters on the bowl records 
the date of its making—the first year of P’ai-Chu of the Han 
dynasty (144 B.C.)—the weight of the article and the maker’s 
name. Much of the original gilding is exposed amidst the patina 
of dark-olive and deep blue and the many earthy incrustations. 


Height, 74% inches: diameter, 9 inches. 


158—Bronze Piterim-potrite Vase (Han) 


Elliptical with flattened faces, on an oblong foot, with bulbous 
neck in hexafoil expansion and shoulder-handles of low-relief 
animal-masks with loose rings. Luminous malachite, mahogany 
and gray-olive patina, all-pervading, smooth and crusted. 


Height and width, 124%, inches. 
(Illustrated) 


159—Heavy Broxze Bett (Chou) 


Of deep sonority. Flattened cylindrical form, with a heavy 

_ serolled handle over the span of its greater diameter. The body 
exhibiting two vertical panels and successive narrow horizontal 
bands of ornament of which only bold bosses persist amid the 
fecund incrustations of long interment. The handle is formed 
of archaic scrolled dragons in quadrilateral molding, their sides 
carrying incised fret or hatch. The incrustations in turquoise- 
green and iron-rust brown. 


Height, 11 inches. 
(Illustrated) 


160—Very Heavy Antievute Bronze CEReEmMontaAL Trieop KrEtTrTLe 


(Han) 


Long fixed loop-handle, heavy squat cabriole legs with elaborate 
bold relief ornamentation at the knee, and two animal-head loop 
side handles with dependent loose rings. The ornate embellish- 
ment includes a pheenix-head spout, balanced by coiling dragons, 
each in turn decorated with incised scrolls, and two bands of 
incised fret between raised ropes. The fret motive in larger 
pattern is continued over the handle. ‘Tea-leaf patina with 
masses of dull-green earthy accumulations. 


Height, 13 inches; length (spout-wise), 124% inches; cross-width, 101 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


161—Bronze OFFeRING-sSTAND oR JAR (Han) 


With its own original cover. Clear, sonorous bronze that has 
never been buried. Fashioned in cylindrical form with rounded 
shoulders and flattened bottom on a circular, contracting pedestal 
with flaring foot. On the flattened top a broad flange handle 
for lifting the cover; on the body two small loop handles. Cover, 
body and pedestal are channeled in a succession of deep lateral 
grooves. ‘The entire vessel covered with a rich patina of brilliant 
malachite-green, mahogany-brown, gun-metal hue, the russet of 
corroded iron and tones of indigo-blue, the varied enrichments 


extending to the interior. 
Height, 1014 inches. 


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162—VENERABLE Bronze RING-HANDLED Dracon JAR WITH COVER 


(Han) 


Original cover and original ring handles—these original bronze 
ring handles being very rarely retained by the hoary vessels 
coming down to to-day; on the shoulder two animal-head loops 
supporting the large free rings. Low circular form on a shallow, 
slightly spreading base resting on three short straight legs with 
animal-head cappings. Tapering cover finishing in a plain cir- 
cular flanged handle. Around the shoulder of the bowl and the 
base of the cover a deeply chiseled, strongly drawn dragon-scroll 
motive in a primitive conventionalization, both cover and bowl 
marked above and below by horizontal flutings. A vessel used 
for the preparation of sacrificial food in ancient ancestor worship. 
Gun-metal and olive patina with heavy green incrustations. 


Height, 8 inches; width, 10 inches. 


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163—Anxcrext Cuivese Teavetixe Berr 


Conventional bi-convex shape, with tubular handle to wi 
pertains a small loop, molded in connection with a studd 
around the neck (or handle). for convenience of suspens 
the camel’s back or otherwise. Decorated on ather 
two series of nie nipple-bosses, of extended prot 
lines of three each, with mtervenmg lateral bands « 
scroll. The two series on each side are separated by 
band, which on one side is plain and on the other ¢ D 

inscription in incised characters. Below the bosse | 
side i an clephant’s head in bold axchaie acest 
the bell is further scrolled. Lustrous malachite zr 
rust patches. The mtegrity of the metal is_pre: 
tone is deep and sonorous. The inscription tells t 
is a traveling bell made at the order of the great Duke of Chon. 
uncle of the third Emperor of that dynasty and for seven | 3 
regent, to be treasured by the generations of his de — 2 
The bell figures in the Hsi Ch°tng Ku Chien, the magnificent 1 (a 
trated catalogue of the Imperial collection of sronzes | in ‘the 
palace at Pekm, published m 1751 im forty-iwe folio volumes by 
the Emperor Ch°len-lung. Carved teakwood stand, with int ic a 
silver inlay, made probably during the reign of Ch'jen-lunz- ‘The 
bell, of course, is of the Chou period, and, like all of the ancient — 
Chinese bronzes, was made by the cire perdu process. 


Height. 13°4 imches (with sfand_ 19°, imchkes)> weight. 17% pounds. : 


The Hsi Ch'ing Ku Chien records the weight of Ge bell in the Tmpeial esl _ 
lection as 219 loung. equivalent in English measure to just under epbic ie 
pounds. 


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164— Bronze Sacaziriciat Bown (Shang) 


Shallow, with a wide flat brim, on a deep circular foot which is a 
pierced with three quadrilateral openings. The interior of the 
basin has a turtle incised in the center. with farther decoration 
of crustaceans im relief and tooled, about the sides, and on the 
exterior is a relief band of angular scroll-fret. The foot also 
carries a scroll band. Blue, green, gray, brown and iron-rust 
patina, with rich malachite incrustations. } 
Diameter. 17 imchesxw 
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165—Rare Bronze Incense Burner (Chou) 


Deep ovoid body with wide mouth and thick, everted short lip, 
on a circular foot, with heavy dragon-head loop-and-drop side- 
handles. Raised band beneath the lip ornamented with a finely 
incised scroll-fret and bosses, and interrupted by three sheep’s- 
heads in relief, two on one side and one on the other. Similar 
band on the foot with lineaments of the t’ao tieh ogre. Rarely 
beautiful, rich, lustrous, malachite xrugo, enhancing the steel- 
gray, iron-rust and mottled-mahogany patina of lesser depth, 
which, with various incrustations, coats both exterior and interior 
of the vessel. Incised mark in the interior of the bottom. 


Height, 7 inches; width, 141% inches. 


166—Heavy Bronze Creremoniat Coverep Disu (Chow) 


Of oblong shape with rounded corners, molded foot and two 
animal-head side handles, with its own original bronze cover. A 
sacrificial vessel for the offering of cooked vegetables or cereals, 
elaborately decorated, with the dragon scroll predominant. Sur- 
rounding the lower body and repeated on the shoulder of the 
cover, a series of horizontal flutings, while both dish and cover 
are bordered by a broad band of the dragon scroll in strong 
relief. Another scroll adorns the foot. The top of the cover 
is wholly occupied by a bold dragon scroll deeply cut, surround- 
ing a small oblong finial, and the long sides of the cover are sur- 
mounted by heavy upright handles running the length of the 
sides, each formed by the bodies of two dragons extended in 
opposite directions. The rich patina which with many incrusta- 
tions covers the entire vessel varies from a gray-olive to verdigris- 
green and cobalt-blue, and deepens below the handles to the 
smooth blackish-brown of a well-smoked meerschaum pipe. An 
eight-character inscription in the interior of the cover is re- 
peated on the interior of the bottom. 


Height, 8 inches; length, 15 inches; width, 7 inches. 


167—Larce “Trirop or Tree Victims” (Han) 


Sacrificial bronze jar with cover, for meat offerings. Spherical 
form with broadly flattened poles and raised equatorial girdle, 
hexagonal legs with monster-head knees, and side handles of 
mythical monsters. Encircled below the middle by a band of 
incised fret and scroll pattern that is repeated on the cover, 
which supports near its outer rim three recumbent animals, 
perhaps oxen or sheep, symbolic of the worship of “the three 
animals”—the cow, the sheep and the wild boar. Entire exterior 
surface covered with a rich patina, varying from a dark olive 
to a pale gray-green—here of solid, there of mottled aspect— 
with incrustations, the incrusted interior presenting tones of deep 
cobalt. 


Height, 81% inches; diameter, 934 inches. 


168—Bronze Ovirorm Vase with Dracon Hanpues. (Han) 


H | Wide, slightly-spreading neck. Encircled by three bands of 
angular and sinuous incised scroll, and carrying two fixed handles 
in the form of highly conventionalized dragons modeled in the 
| round, the decoration executed with considerable distinction. 
ia Lustrous patina of rich mahogany, olive-brown, dark green, yel- 
| . low and deep blue mottling, with thin incrustations. 


Height, 14 inches. 


169—GuosuLar Bronze Vase (Han) 


ii With short contracted neck and banded lip, on short circular : 
foot; two loose-ring handles depending from loops sustained by 
animal-masks in low relief. Coated over its entire surface with 
an olive, turquoise and mahogany richly mottled patina. 


Height, 1314 inches. 


170—Laree Heavy Bronze Grosurar Jar (Chow) 


With short neck and narrow everted lip, on a deep circular foot, 
the neck marked by two rings. Body and foot are divided into 
three equal sections by pronounced ridges which are really the 
noses of grotesque “devil heads’”—or the t’ao t’ieh ogre linea- 
ments—that form the chief decorative motive of the piece, pierced 
bosses on either side of the ridges being the monster’s eyes and 
the horns being ingeniously worked into a bold incised scroll 
holding the decorative scheme together. Interspaces filled with 
fret-scrolls of lighter incision, so that the whole body of the 
vase is occupied by decorations, excepting a depressed channel 
encircling it laterally. ‘The entire expansive surface is covered 
with a soft patina of gray-olive tone with silvery notes, and 
bright green incrustations. 

Height, 91% inches; diameter, 1134 inches. 


Two similar jars are in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 


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| 171—Ricu Green Bronze Bett (Chow) 


| Bi-convex, lightly spreading toward its two-pointed base, with a 

\ tapering tubular handle or neck for suspension. On either face 
i two series of nine conical protuberances or nipples, arranged in 
HI | rows of three within bands outlined by small bosses. On the 
| flat top-surface a deeply-incised conventional scroll. Rich patina 
of dark olive-green, olive-yellow and brown notes, and even dis- 
i tribution. In carved teakwood frame-stand. 


Height, 151% inches; with stand, 2314 inches. 


172—Larce Grosutrar Bronze Coranver (Han) 


Open-topped, with two loop handles of thick rope design spring- 
ing from the heavy everted rim, and short foot. Used in pre- 
paring cooked foods in the ancient ceremonial ritual. The bot- 
tom is perforated in numerous slits for the passage of steam. 
Only ornamentation besides the handles three rings. Both sur- 
_faces covered thickly with blue, green and iron-rust red patina 
involved with heavy earthy incrustations from long burial. 


Height, 101% inches; diameter, 1334 inches; width with handles, 1514 inches. 


173—GReEEN Bronze QuapRILATERAL Jar (Han) 


With expanded sides, square base and mouth and two loose-ring 
handles depending from animal-masks in low relief; faces other- 
wise plain. Russet and malachite patina, mottled and rich, with 
gray and blue notes and widespread incrustation. 


Height, 13% inches. 


| 174—Bronze SacririciaL VesseL (Chou) 


ia Quadrilateral, the oblong mouth of full dimensions, the bottom 
ia rounding; deep, bell-shaped foot; upright loop handles on the 
long sides. Used for food offerings in the ritual ceremonies of 
i | ancestor worship. Exterior and interior surfaces coated with 
i dull malachite and dark olive and washed-turquoise patina and 
| incrustations, with rambling expanses of a warm iron-rust hue 
of an unctuous luster. The elaborated stand includes the figures 
of two pheenixes with spread wings, carved in the round and 
perched upon their own long tail-feathers curled under in con- 
ventional scrolls. 


Height, 13 inches; length, 1514 inches. 


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175—Bronze Circurar Jar (Han) 


Broad, full body, high shoulder, short neck marked by two raised 
rings; rounded lip and low circular foot. Elaborate decoration 
in a series of bands and borders from shoulder to base, compre- 
hending involved scrolls and fret, halberd heads, the small re- 
peated circle as a border motive, ridges and bosses in the ad- 
monitory ogre lineaments, with unornamented channels demarca- 
ting the raised and incised bands. Thickly incrusted variegated 
patina in sundry tones of green, blue, black and iron-rust brown, 
with the green dominant and pervasive. 


Height, 10 inches; diameter, 131%. inches. 


176—Larce AncieNT CeremontaL Dracon WrxeE Jar (Chow) 


Of heavy sonorous bronze, with its own original bronze cover. 
Ovoid form with contracted neck, deep, slightly spreading foot, 
two animal-head looped shoulder-handles, and a third looped 
handle at the base of the face of the jar for assistance in pouring 
out the contents. Below the plain neck, which is marked by a 
single ring, the jar is luxuriantly embellished with incised and 
bold relief massive ornamentation over the entire surface, the 
cover (which has a neck-handle) included, the dragon motive 
prevailing. On cover and shoulder archaic fire-breathing dragons, 
boldly carved, face each other; other dragons encircle the base; 
while on the lower body appear in large form, four times repeated, 
the features of one of the mythological, symbolic animals—the 
interspaces everywhere engraved with intricate fret and scroll 
work. Brown patina throughout, of varying tone and deepening 


to rich, dark notes. 


Height, 16 inches; width, 1314 inches. 


The patina and condition of this fine bronze show it to have been excavated 
or to have accidentally come to the surface in very ancient times. The dis- 
covery or coming to light of these vessels in hills and valleys in early an- 
tiquity was always regarded as of good omen, and names of cities and of 
reigns were changed in their honor. After the Sung dynasty, as Dr. Bushell 
points out, old bronzes being no longer held sacred, noble tombs were 
excavated for the enrichment of private collections and royal museums, and 


for the study of the ancient objects. 


177—Remarxasrte Trivop Incense Burner (Chow) 


Semi-globular bowl, of heavy, sonorous bronze, with thick, quadri- 
lateral upright loop handles and tall, unadorned, massive cabriole 
legs. The bowl is encircled by a plain molding and wide bands 
of an unusually bold dragon scroll in relief, outlined by deep 
cutting. Other dragon scrolls of varied form and differing from 
each other are carved in the handles. Entire jar covered with a 
rarely beautiful, unctuous patina and incrustations of many tones 
of malachite and olive-green, of gray, brown, black and brownish- 
red, with the deep lustrous greens predominating. On the in- 
terior an extended inscription in incised characters. The in- 
scription tells that the bronze was produced under the order 
of Ching-Moo-Kung, who during the Chou dynasty was Goy- 
ernor of oné of the eighteen provinces, about the year 600 B. C. 
The carved and pierced cover, of the Ch’ien-lung period, is sur- 
mounted by a jade handle with the five-clawed Imperial dragon, 
and lotus flowers carved in full relief and undercut. 


Height, 121, inches; diameter, 12 inches. 


178—Bronze QuapRILATERAL Jar witH Cover (Han) 
On a square base from which the sides swell freely, recurring in a 

short neck finishing in a thickened square lip; cover in the form | 

of a low, truncated pyramid, surmounted by a thin, upright, — 
goose-neck handle with modeled head and beak, at each of its — 

four corners and all the handles incised on both their flat sides. — 

Two animal-masks in low relief, with loops and loose rings as — 
shoulder-handles. Without other ornament. Red-brown patina — 

with rose and turquoise, olive and mottled brown notes. 
Height, 16% inches. d 


179—Exrraorpinary Antieve Bronze Rrrvuat Vesser (Shang) 


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In the form of an ancient gigantic beast somewhat of the out- 
line of the Malayan tapir, carefully modeled with a remarkable 
sense of proportion, making the ugly and unwieldy animal-bulk 
artistic and highly interesting. The beast, of enormous body 
and short, stumpy legs, is modeled in the round—the interior 
hollow—standing squarely on all four feet and with head raised ~ 
so that the long but truncated proboscis points straight forward ‘4 
well above the level of its back, while the huge ears are ex- — 
tended backward high over the shoulders. The tail curls under, 
forming a loop handle. The oldest and most convincingly unique 
bronze of the collection, and probably of any collection ever 
brought to this country. 
This curious relic of artistic antiquity has been so acted upon — 
by the elements during its age-long interment that the bronze 
texture is almost wholly replaced by the strange exrugo and | 
wonderful incrustations, until the piece resembles more a carving | 
from a block of rich and mellow-hued malachite or the work 
of a marvelous potter than a bronze. The eye wanders from 
the mahogany-brown and red and pearl-gray patinas on ex- — 
posed spots of the original metal over a baffling field of color—_ 
turquoise-blue and turquoise-green, the rich and varying mala- 
chite greens, with mottlings and striations of white and black 
and gray and brown and yellow, and yet of olive, and again of 
gray, the soft, inviting gray of Time and Nature. 
The present cover for the molded opening in the top of the 
back, of solid bronze overlaid with gold, is modern—as things 
go in China—having been made in the reign of Ch’ien-lung and 
bearing on its inner surface the Ch’ien-lung seal. (The ex- 
cavation of the vessel was, therefore, at least as early as the 
eighteenth century.) The cover is luxuriantly carved with weird 
monster-heads in high relief and undercutting, with a secondary 
ornamentation of cloud and wave forms, and is accompanied by 
a replica in teak. 

Height, 12 inches (with stand, 1514 inches); length, 1834, inches. 

(Illustrated—see Frontispiece) 


180—Larcre Heavy Bronze QuaprivaTerRAL WINE Jar (Shang) 


Of ovoid form with high shoulders, a short quadrangular neck 
and two loop handles, with a third loop handle affixed to the 
face near the bottom. All three handles display the horned 
sheep’s head and between the shoulder handles are two rams’ 
heads in high relief. Flanking these and the shoulder handles, 
in a band delimited by concentric ridges, are raised medallions 
of the ancient wave motive, significant of music and the drama 
—the ancient music having begun with the sound of the waves. 
Varied, subdued patina of browns, steel-grays, turquoise and 
malachite hues, with thin incrustations. 

Height, 14 inches; width, 11 inches. 


181—QuvapRILATERAL Bronze Vase wirH Four Hanpies (Han) 


High bulging shoulders tapering to a quadrangular and flaring 
base, and contracting abruptly to a short neck ending in a 
thickened lip.. On each shoulder an animal-mask in relief sup- 
porting a loose ring with scrolled decoration incised and in re- 
lief. Modeled in depressed bands completely filled with an 
elaborate scroll and fret ornamentation, incised and in relief, 
the shoulder ornamental field being cut by a deep pointed border 
in surface reserve. Russet, malachite and olive patina and in- 
crustations throughout. Height, 16 inches. 


182—Rare Deer Grosurar Tripop Bronze Jar (Han) 


With original bronze cover. Encircled by two bands of closely 
repeated S-scrolls, incised, each band surmounted by a narrow 
scrolled border of the recumbent » . Cover carries two bands 
of the same upright scroll, each bordered on both sides by the 
recumbent wm , and an additional narrow band of the same scroll 
unbordered. The top bands are separated by rope moldings, 
beyond the highest of which are found other bands or borders, 
one with an archaic dragon scroll and one with an angular fret 
or lattice. Cover surmounted by three loop handles and a small 
pierced button, all ornamented. The bowl, with two large quadri- 
lateral loop handles, is raised on three cabriole legs with scrolls 
and ridges at the knees. Covered throughout with olive, verdi- 
gris and malachite-hued patina and incrustations, the interstices 
in the S-scrolls of the body bands being filled in in places by a 
deposit of ebony black. 


Height, 151%, inches; diameter, 134, inches; width at handles, 161%, inches. 


183—BronzeE QuapRILATERAL Vase (Han) 


With swelling sides expanding from the low, square foot, and 
contracting to a short square neck with thickened lip. At the 
shoulder two animal-head loop-handles with loose rings engraved 
with scrolls. The lightly engraved ornament covering all sides 
of the vase in a broadly conceived design of scroll and meander 
is almost obliterated in a rich brown, lustrous patina enhanced 
with malachite, deep blue and many tones of olive. 


Height, 1714 inches. 


184—Larce Grosutar Bronze Jar (Han) 


With two loose-ring handles depending from low-relief animal- 
masks on the shoulder. ‘The smooth body encircled by three 
shallow-channeled bands modeled in bas-relief. Entire surface 
covered with a soft patina of rich, deep seal-brown tone, with 
malachite and gray-olive patches and fleckings. 


Height, 174% inches; diameter, 131% inches. 


185—Taxtut QuapRILATERAL Bronze Vase INLAID WITH SILVER AND 


Gotp (Sung) 


A Sung copy of a Chou original. The bulbous body, with corners 
of sides and bottom rounded, tapers slowly to the rounded-oblong 
neck which expands lightly at the lip; the whole resting on a 
deep pedestal-base. Outstanding channeled moldings, vertical 
and horizontal, enclose eight recessed panels about the body ; neck 
and base smooth; two handles in the form of long-necked con- 
ventionalized phoenix-heads in full relief. The whole covered with 
an intricacy of foliations and scrolls finely engraved and inlaid 
with gold and silver, and coated with a rare patina of verdigris 
and malachite green, olive-yellow, iron-rust and deep brown, with 
incrustations. 

Height, 20 inches. 


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186—Tatx Heavy Cyzmprica, Bronze Bry (Chou) 


Expanding in the upward direction in bulbous form, with flat- 
tened top encircled by a flange or lip, and carrying a loop for 
suspension. Sonorous tone. Ornamented with heavy scroll 
bands, incised and in bold relief, and wholly covered with patina 
and thick incrustations of an unusual matt, turquoise-green 


aspect, besprinkled with indigo-blue. 
Height, 20 inches. 


187—Larce Bronze Bett (Chow) 


Bi-convex form, with flat top and tubular neck or handle, and 
twenty-four stepped-conical protuberances on each face below 
the shoulder. Pale gray-green and olive-yellow thick patina. 


Height, 21 inches. 


188—Granp Grosutar Bronze Jar (Han) 


With graceful, contracted neck and tall foot, and two loose- 
ring handles depending from low-relief animal-masks, The body 
belted by five fluted channels defined by molded ridges, and wholly 
covered with an unctuous coating of patina and incrustations 
in the fecund green and subdued browns of a stagnant pond in 


the interior of a wood. 
Height, 18%, inches; diameter, 1414 inches. 


189—Rare Larce Bronze Wine Jar (Han) 


With its own original bronze cover. Massive globular body, 
adorned at the shoulder only with four cloud-medallions set 
between four round loop-handles. Four similar handles, pro- 
portionately reduced, rise from top of cover, which also carries 
a cloud-medallion, now scarcely distinguishable, and is further 
ornamented with four animal heads. Jar and lid are completely 
covered with patina and incrustations, gray in effect, mingled 
with olive tones, and touches of blue and dull sandy-red, and 
patches of bright, lucent green. 


Height, 20 inches; diameter, 17 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


190—Bronze War Drum—“Cuu-xo’s Drum” (Han) 


Circular form with bulging shoulder and flat top. Completely 
covered on sides and top with an elaborate and intricate suc- 
cession of rings and bands, in relief and incised, of concentric, 
hatched, corded, ‘“‘fish-bone” and scroll ornament, the top cen- 
tered by a thirteen-point star and surmounted by four conven- 
tionalized tree frogs near the rim, the two of each pair approach- 
ing each other. Patina of green, cobalt and yellowish-gray tones, 
with heavy earthy incrustations. Suspended by new silken cords 
of Imperial yellow from its four looped handles, in a carved 
dragon-head teak stand. 


Height, 164, inches (with stand, 35 inches) ; diameter, 27 inches (not including 
the bulging stand). 


These drums, products of the Shan tribes along the Burmese frontier, re- 
ceived their Chinese name after General Chu-ko, who invaded that country 
in the Third century. A similar drum, but with the frogs each following the 
other, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum at South Kensington, London. 


(Illustrated) 


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191—Bronze Bett (Chow) 


Pointed-elliptical body with a straight tubular handle or neck 
enclosing a cross-bar for suspension. Adorned beneath the 
shoulder with two series of bold protuberances on each face, ar- 
ranged in sections of twelve constituted of four bands. Covered 
throughout with a heavy patina in tones of olive, gray-green and 


malachite, variously modified. 
Height, 23 inches. 


192—Masestic Bronze Jar (Han) 


Globular with wide, lightly spreading neck, on low circular 
foot and with two loop and loose-ring handles. Covered 
with patina and incrustations in rich quality of dark, polished 
malachite, mahogany-red and brown, blue, gray-brown, turquoise- 
green and vermilion. On a shoulder band an incised inscription. 


Height, 17%, inches; diameter, 1444 inches. 


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SECOND AFTERNOON’S SALE 
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1914 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
BEGINNING Ate 2 30 O'CLOCK 


WHICH INCLUDES CATALOGUE NOS. 193 TO 375 


SINGLE COLOR PORCELAINS 
MOSTLY OF CABINET SIZE 


193—Miniatvure Caré-avu-Lair Borris (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid body, with slender neck slightly expanding in the upward 
direction. Luminous café-au-lait monochrome glaze; the rim with 
a white glaze. 


194—RosE-souFFLE SnurF Jar (Chien-lung) 


Egg-shaped with a narrow, abbreviated neck. The entire ex- 
terior surface coated with a rose-soufflé glaze, the color-particles 
minutely blown and distributed. Interior of the neck shows a 
deep green glaze. 


195—Mrxtature Marsreizep CrAackLe Botrre (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid body with sloping shoulder and rather full neck. Coated 
with a marbled glaze of splotch effect and strong contrasts, 
the colors including green, yellow, starch blue, dark red approach- 
ing cinnabar hue, and white, the whole exhibiting a fine fish-roe 
crackle. 


196—Mrntature Ecc-rorm Sourrret Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 


With short contracted neck and recessed foot. Coated with an 
unfamiliar sowfflé glaze of griseous tone, the grayish-blue fleck- 
ings overlying without obliterating the white glaze. Rim and 
interior of neck glazed in camellia-leaf green, and the foot under- 
neath in white. 


197—Unieve Yettow Snurr Borrre (Ch’ien-lung) 


Fashioned in resemblance to a miniature but complete ear of 
ripened corn, the kernels carefully modeled and the whole cov- 
ered with a glaze in the hue of the golden maize, husked. Com- 
plete with stopper in the form of the point of the ear. 


Height, 3 inches. 


198—Mintature Mirror-sirack Bortie (K’ang-hst) 


Ovoidal-globular body on circular foot, with very slightly- 
spreading neck. Coated evenly with a brilliant glaze of mirror- 
black, the rim glazed in white. 


199—Green CrackLepD Snurr Borrie (K’ang-hst) 


Cylindrical with short neck. Coated with a monochrome glaze 
of cucumber-green, finely crackled. 


200—Lanec-yao Snurr Jar (K’ang-hst) 


Cylindrical form, with stopper. Coated with a rich sang-de- 
| beuf glaze with light fleckings. Decorated where the red hue — 
i is least pronounced with a penciled figure of Shoki—the strongest — 
man in the world—with his foot on the devil, who is his servant 
ill and prostrates himself whenever his master DDO ae the decora- 
i tion done over the glaze and fired. 


Height, 314 inches. 


201—Green Snvurr Borrrie (Chien-lung) 


i Oviform with sloping shoulder and short tubular neck; coated 
with a monochrome glaze of watermelon-green of metallic luster. 


| Height, 3 inches. 


i 202—APPLE-GREEN Miniature Beaker (K’ang-hst) 


Conventional form with bulbous lower body, straight neck and 
flaring lip, without mid-section; on low circular foot. Covered 
with a glaze of pure apple-green tone, with dull luster like the 
i skin of the fruit with the bloom on, and marked by a bold crackle 
in brown lines; interior of neck glazed in gray-white and crackled. 


203—Miniature Musrarp-veELtow Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid with short neck; coated with a glaze of light mustard- 
yellow tone, finely crackled. Interior of neck glazed in camellia- 
leaf green which overflows the rim. 


204—Buive Enamerep Snurr Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 


Cylindrical with flat shoulder and short straight neck. Covered 
throughout with a monochrome glaze of purplish blue, enameled 
with branches of the wild prunus tree in brown, thickly spread 
_ with white blossoms with green-tipped petals and yellow centers, 
a bird perched on one of the limbs and another approaching it 
on the wing. Foot glazed in pistache-green. Has hippopotamus- 
horn stopper, inlaid with mother-of-pearl to form the yang-yin 
symbol. 
Height, 3% inches. 


205—Rare SourrLe Ovirorm Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 


: With sloping shoulder, and short neck slightly recurving at 
7 the lip. Coated with a rose-soufflé glaze over a glaze of brilliant 
: mustard-yellow. ‘The rim and interior of the neck have a glaze 


of camellia-leaf green. (Lip slightly chipped.) 
Height, 4 inches. 


206—Wrirer’s WarTER Cup (K’ang-hsi) 


With squat, expanding body, contracted to an abbreviated neck 
and having a flanged cover in powder-blue. Invested with a 
brilliant glaze of mottled or powdered cobalt-blue of rare quality 
and richness. 


207—Wauire Fu-cutne Coupe (Ming) 


Modeled in the form of a lotus leaf, in- 
verted to form the cup, the stem, which 
rises out of the center of the hollow, 
curling over the side and a branch stem 
passing underneath the bottom and 
presenting a bud on the opposite side. 


Width, 41, inches. 


208—Pare Turevoise Vase (Chien-lung) 


Bottle-form, with squat body, slender 
neck and everted lip, on a low foot. 
Glazed in the delicate hue of the Ori- 
ental turquoise and disclosing upon 
examination an infinitesimal crackle. 


Height, 41%, inches. 


209—Rosin’s-EcG SourrLtté Botrie (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid body, narrow flat foot, sloping shoulder slightly flattened, 
and slender neck expanding a little at the lip. Covered with a 
robin’s-egg blue soufflé glaze of varying character, which extends 
under the foot and over the rim to the interior of the neck. 


Height, 41, inches. 


210—Suort Prar-sHapep Vase (Yung Chéng) 


With fluted body and smooth slowly tapering truncated neck. 
On a low foot and with two short cylindrical side-handles at the 
shoulder. Covered with a gray-celadon glaze of unctuous sur- 
face having a scattering broad-spaced crackle in clearly defined 
pale chestnut lines. The glaze covers also the interior and the 


foot, which bears the seal mark of the reign. 
Height, 31 inches. 


211—Stenper Tusurar Vase (Chien-lung) 


In the form of a section of a small bamboo trunk, covered with 
a luminous monochrome glaze of delicate pistache-green. Mod- 
eled in relief under the glaze is a decoration of mating birds 
perched on the branch of a tree which rises from among rocks 


at the base. 
Height, 41% inches. 


212—Morritep Turevoise Ovow Jar (Cl’ien-lung) 


The beautifully mottled glaze in the 
hue of the Persian turquoise carries a 
fine fish-roe crackle, and extends over 
a part of the foot. Has wooden cover. 


Height, 3% inches. 


213—Parr Smartt Mrrror-piack VASES 
(K’ang-hst) 


Ovoid body, with neck in form of a 
pear-shaped vase into which the short, 
contracted neck over the main body 
expands. Covered with a deep black 
glaze of mirror-quality from the white- 
glazed lip to the foot, which under- 
neath is also glazed in white. 


Height, 5 inches. 


214—Rostin’s-rce Sourrieé Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Double-gourd form, coated with a characteristic glaze of robin’s- 


egg blue sowffié, in pronounced gray-blue and malachite mottling 
or wavy striations. 
Height, 444 inches. 


215—Rostr-sourFrLé Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


In the form of a double-gourd, or an ovoid jar with a smaller 
pear-shaped vase superposed and forming the neck of the vase. 
Covered with a rose-souffié glaze throughout the exterior sur- 
face; interior of neck glazed in camellia-leaf green; underneath 


the foot a white glaze. 
Height, 414, inches. 


216—Smatt Grosurar Vase (Ciien-lung) 


On a short, lightly spreading foot, with slender neck and flaring 
lip. Modeled in relief with a decoration presenting a stork among 
lotus plants, one stem showing the seed-pod. The whole coated 
with a lustrous monochrome glaze of pale canary-yellow, which 
is carried to the interior of the neck and underneath the foot. 


Height, 41, inches. 


217—Srarcu-BLuE Ovor Jar (K’ang-hst) 


With short everted lip. Dense, pure white porcelain covered in 
monochrome with a glaze of slate or starch blue, of liquid, opaque 
quality. 


Diameter, 34% inches, 


218—Ropsin’s-ece SourrLé Gariipor (Ch’ien-lung) 


Conventional form with pronounced taper and very slightly re- 
curving at the foot. Exhibits the curious glaze in a markedly 
even distribution, a great deal of deep blue intermingling with 
the robin’s-egg green; of unctuous surface and dull luster. — 


Height, 414 inches. 


219—Smatt Turquoise Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid, with short, straight neck. 
Coated with a luminous glaze of deli- 
cate turquoise-blue, minutely crackled. 


Height, 41, inches. 


220—Pair Exeuistre Wuite BorTrTies 
(Yung Chéng) \ 


Ovoid body on flat foot, with gently 
sloping, almost flat shoulder, and tall, 
slender, graceful neck. In the paste 
is lightly incised a decoration of 
dragons and leaf scrolls, the whole 
being covered with a glaze of the char- 
acteristic Yung-chéng white and deli- 
cately beautiful. Underneath the foot, 
penciled in blue within the blue double 
ring: T'a-ch’ing Yung-chéng nien-chih 
(‘“‘Made in the reign of Yung-chéng of 
the great Ch’ing dynasty”—the dynasty recently dethroned). 


Height, 434 inches. 


221—Parte Musrarp-YeLLtow Botte (Chien-lung) 


Globular, with tubular neck, on a short foot, the shoulder defined 
by a low molding. Coated with a light glaze in the bright yellow 
of flowering mustard-seed, embodying a pin-head and fish-roe 
crackle with a slightly larger crackle beneath the rim. 


Height, 5% inches. 


222—Morriep Turevorse Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Globular body with slender neck and trumpet mouth, on a low 
circular foot. Invested with a brilliant glaze of mottled or 
clouded turquoise-blue, minutely crackled. 


Height, 54%, inches. 


223—Rose-pu-Barry Gropurar Vase (Yung Chéng) 


With tubular neck, on a_pedestal-convex 
foot. Mounted with silver-gilt side-handles 
in the form of scrolled dragons, springing 
from a neck-rim with which, as with a foot- 
rim, the vase has been provided. Covered 
with the rare rose-pink glaze known as the 
rose-du-Barry, of even color-quality and 


“orange-peel” surface. 
Height, 5 inches. 


224—Rose-sourrLeé Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid body with tubular neck; covered with 
a rose-soufflé glaze on white ground, the rose 
appearing in generous deep fleckings and in- 
finitesimal spots. 


Height, 6 inches. 


225—DexicaTe Pra-GrEEN Borrie (Yung Chéng) 


The globular-ovoidal body, on a low foot, tapering to a tall, 
slender, tubular neck; the whole invested with an even mono- 
chrome glaze in the hue’of newly exposed young peas in the 


freshly opened pod. 
Height, 6 inches. 


—-226—Rose-sourFLE Braker (Ch’ien-lung) 

In two principal divisions, the lower slightly spreading toward 
the foot, the upper flaring into a trumpet mouth, separated by 
a narrow raised midband. Covered with a fine rose-soufflé glaze 


which extends well into the interior of the vase. 
Height, 5%, inches. 


2271 —DarK-BLUE Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid body with sloping shoulder, and slender tubular neck 
slightly expanding. Coated with a dark purple-blue glaze of 


mazarine suggestion. 
Height, 534 inches. 


228—RosE-pu-Barry QuapRILATERAL VAsE (Ch’ien-lung) 


Body in form of a square, contracting below to a spreading 
square foot; narrow sloping shoulders; on the neck two vertical 
loop handles; everted lip. The entire exterior covered with a 
monochrome glaze of rose-du-Barry tint and orange-peel surface. 
Interior of neck and foot glazed in pale pistache-green. 


Height, 514 inches. 


229—Whrirer’s BrusH-HOLDER IN Fun-tine-yao (Yung Chéng) 


The paste of light weight and texture—the so-called “soft paste” | 
—with a cream-white glaze or finish as of highly polished ivory; 
the shape, a cylinder in openwork, with solid bottom. The entire 


receptacle is formed of an intricate interlacement of lotus leaves 


and plants, with flowers, buds and seed-pods, and a stork watch- 
ing among them in the implied water with opened bill. A rare 
and most unusual example. 

Height, 4 inches. 


230—Smati Borrie-sHapep Sourriée Vase (Chien-lung) 


Coated with an unusual glaze of turquoise tone, with innumerable 
fleckings, which is pervaded by a pin-head crackle. 


Height, 5%4 inches. 


231—Sanc-pE-B@uF GiosuLar Borrir (Ch’ien-lung) 


With straight neck. Proportioned with a fine dignity of form 
and coated with a lustrous, fluent glaze of varied ox-blood red, 


with purplish trend on the neck, the rim exhibiting a celadon 
touch. 


Height, 6 inches. 
232—Brivuant Lapis-ptue Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 


Oviform, with high shoulder, short neck and everted lip. In- 
vested with a glowing lapis glaze of mirror quality. 


Height, 534 inches. 


233—Two Rare WaTERMELON-GREEN Jars (K’ang-hsi) 


Cylindrical, on low circular foot; rounded shoulder and base, 
short vertical lip and wide mouth. Invested throughout with a 
cool but rich, luxuriant and brilliant green glaze, with fine and 
all-pervading crackle, the glaze applied also to the inner part of 
the foot, and in lighter tone covering the interior of the vessels. 
The color, infrequently met with in the multiplicity of Celestial 
greens, is known to the Chinese as watermelon-green. 


Height, 41, inches. 


234—Wrirer’s BrusH-HOLDER (Chien-lung) 


Cylindrical, in the form of a section of a bamboo tree of small 
diameter and glazed in a delicate yellow-brown or tan color; 
upper and lower edges finely pricked in imitation of the bamboo 
fiber. Ornamented under the glaze with relief “modelings of 
Shou-lao with attendants and a spotted stag and flying bats. 


Height, 434, inches. 


235—Morriep Lapis-sLuz Ovor Bown (Ch’ien-lung) 


Exterior and interior covered with a glaze of speckled or mottled 
lapis-blue, infrequently found. 


Diameter, 434 inches. 


236—Suort Borrie-sHaPeD Vase (K’ang-hst) 
With thickened, protruding, molded lip 


and low foot. Covered with a uniform 
camellia-leaf green glaze, minutely 


crackled. 
Height, 514 inches. 


237—Rosr-pu-Barry Coure (Yung Chéng) 


Modeled in low form on a short circular 
foot, its brief body expanding or bulbous 
and finishing with a wide mouth. Pure 
white, dense, resonant porcelain, invested 
with an even, smooth glaze of the melted- 
rose hue with lavender-pink suggestions 
which is known as rose-du-Barry. 


Diameter, 434, inches. 
2 ‘4 


238—Rosrin’s-Ece SourrLé GaLiiror (Ch’ien- 
lung) 
Bulbous body with full shoulder, the 


contour slightly recurving at the foot. Covered with a char- 
acteristic robin’s-egg soufflé glaze, in which the malachite tone 
predominates. 


Height, 61% inches. 


239—Iron-rust Merariic-tuster Vase (Ch’ien-lung) — 


In inverted-pear shape on a narrow foot which a thickened glaze 
makes slightly bulbous, and having a short neck with a white 
rim. Covered with a glaze in the rusty hue of disintegrating 
iron, with innumerable metallic fleckings, the rust-brown glaze 
continued on the interior of the neck and underneath the foot. 


Height, 51%, inches. 


240—Lapis-BLUE Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) 


With ovoidal body and tubular neck. Covered with a uniform 
glaze of deep lapis-blue and mirror-brilliancy. 


Height, 6 inches. 


241—Deuicate “Sorr Paste” Ovirorm Jar (Yung Chéng) 


With high shoulder, short neck and bulbous lip. Thin porcelain 
of the so-called “soft-paste” type, covered with a soft, creamy- 
white glaze over an intricate floral scroll decoration etched in 
the paste. Besides this major ornamentation, covering the en- 
tire body above a base border, there are shoulder borders of fret 
and scroll, and a necklet of palmations, all executed in the paste 
beneath the glaze, which is loosely crackled in fine brown lines. 


Height, 534 inches. 


242—Parr Turquoise Borrie-sHarep Vases (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid, with a thick neck. Coated with 
-a crackled turquoise glaze partaking 
of the hue of the green or washed stone, 
the glaze in the interior of the neck 
of one of them showing a ringed and 

hatched effect. 
Height, 534 inches. 


243—CoraL-RED CEnsER (Yung Chéng) 


Low circular form, expanding from a 
short foot and recurving in a slightly 
everted lip, with wide mouth. Loop 
side-handles, with rudimentary archaic 
dragon-heads modeled in relief. The 
exterior coated with a soft, lustrous 
glaze of coral-red, the interior in a 


flecked robin’s-egg green. 


Diameter, 4% inches; with handles, 6 inches. 


244—Brituiant Green Crackiep Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid, with tubular neck. Coated with a brilliant glaze in the 
hue of the greening apple, pervaded by a fine crackle in delicate 
lines, the glaze without the crackle overspreading the foot and 


the interior of the neck. 
Height, 6 inches. 


245—Prart-wHITeE CrackLep Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) 


Dense porcelain covered with a monochrome glaze of a soft, 
creamy white with pearl-like luster, the rim glazed in black, and a 
spacious crackle ramifying about the vase in lines of russet- 


brown. 
Height, 51, inches. 


246—Buive-siack GiLopuLaR Borrie-sHaPeD Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Dense porcelain, coated with a glaze of mirror quality and so 
dark in its deep blue or purplish pigment as to appear almost 


one of the mirror-blacks. 
Height, 5°34 inches. 


247—Catr’s Liver Cotor Borris (Chien-lung) 
Pure white porcelain invested with a glaze of dull luster in the 
hue of calf’s liver and with a surface reproducing the texture 


represented. 
Height, 6 inches. 


248—Rosr-pu-Barry Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Of mammoth pear-shape with contracted neck and trumpet lip, 
on a low slightly spreading foot. Pure white porcelain, covered 
with a uniform monochrome glaze of the rose-du-Barry hue, with 


orange-peel surface and dull luster. 
Height, 614 inches. 


249—Lapis-sLtur Botrre (Ch ien-lung) 


With ovoid body and cylindrical neck, slightly expanding. 
Coated with a lapis-blue glaze of mirror quality, overflowing to 
the interior of the neck. 

Height, 6 inches. 


250 


SmaLtL Borrie-sHarpepD Vase (Chien-lung) 


With plain cylindrical neck. Covered throughout with a mustard- 
yellow glaze and minute crackle. 
Height, 514 inches. 


251—Ovoiw Jar (K’ang-hsi) 
Graceful gallipot body supporting a deep, wide, thick neck with 
narrow everted lip. Invested throughout with a brilliant glaze 
of camellia-leaf green, evenly distributed, which overflows into 


the interior of the neck, exhibiting a fine fish-roe crackle. 


Height, 54% inches. 


252—TuravuolsE-BLUE Ovirorm Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 


With spreading foot, contracted neck and 
~ lightly-flaring lip. Coated in a lustrous 
glaze of turquoise-blue, with paler tones 
as of tenuous drifting clouds, and deepen- 
ing in hue about a foot-rim and a rim 
molded to demarcate shoulder and neck. 
The glaze throughout shows a _ fine 


crackle. 
Height, 6 inches. 


253—BortTiE-sHAPED Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


With tapering globular body and slender 
neck. Covered with a dense glaze of deep 
~cucumber-green, with a varying, gen- 
erally fine, crackle. 
~ Height, 6 inches. 


254—Brer’s Liver Garurpor (Chien-lung) 


Clear white porcelain of Ch’ien-lung covered with a monochrome 
glaze of beef’s liver color and representative of the texture imi- 
tated. On the short neck a series of dot, foliated, scroll and 
line borders, with traces of the original gilding which once 
embellished them. 

Height, 5% inches. 


255—Laris-BLugE Borrie (Ch’ten-lung) 


With ovoid body and tubular neck, covered with a bright glaze 
‘of lapis-blue which extends over the rim. 
Height, 6 inches. 


256—Werrrer’s Brusu-HoLpEer (Ch’ien-lung) 


Sonorous porcelain, in the form of a section of bamboo trunk, 
hollowed, the upper and lower surfaces pricked in representation 
of the structure of the bamboo wood. Decorated in bold relief 
modeling with a sage and a monkey under a pine tree near 
rocks; the whole covered with a chrome-yellow glaze of luminous 
quality, that on the foot revealing a metallic luster. 


Height, 5 inches. 


257—Canary-YELLow Ovirorm Jar (Yung Chéng) 


Pure white porcelain, invested with a brilliant glaze of pure, 
even, canary-yellow, yielding metallic reflections, which covers 


also the foot of the vase. 
Height, 51 inches. 


258—Tvravoise Botrre (Ch’ien-lung) 


With ovoid body and straight slim neck, coated in a rich tur- 
quoise-blue glaze of brilliant surface and marked by a fine fish- 


roe crackle. 
Height, 6 inches. 


259—Smatt Mirror-siack Borrie (Chien-lung) 


Ovoidal, with slender neck. Coated with a brilliant glaze of 
rich, deep mirror-black, which at the rim and about the foot 
is transformed to a scarcely less brilliant iron-rust hue. 


Height, 5% inches. 


260—Rosin’s-EcG SourFLé BrusH-HoLper (Chien-lung) 


In the form of a gnarled trunk of a tree at the root, hollowed 
out, such as is used in nature by the Orientals for brush-holding 
and other purposes. Exterior and interior covered with a 


robin’s-egg soufflé glaze of unctuous surface, which extends 
underneath the foot. 
Height, 5 inches. 


261—Poure Wuire “Lace Parrern” Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid on a short, slightly-spreading foot, with a wide, straight 
neck. Fine translucent porcelain of semi-eggshell texture, with 
a clear, ringing, musical note. Both neck and body adorned 
with blossom forms and scrolling foliations in an elaborate lace 
pattern excised from the paste and flowed over with the glaze 
of both exterior and interior. The ornamentation, visible in the 
light, has a greater attraction when seen against the light. The 
Japanese have given to this form of decoration the name “‘fire- 
fly,” owing to the effect when the vessel is held against the light. 


Height, 5 inches. 


962—TaLt-NECKED TurQuOIsE BoTTLE-sHAPED Vase (Ch’ien-lun 
g 


On a low foot, with squat body and a slender neck expanding 
slightly toward the lip. Covered with a mottled glaze of pale 


turquoise hue revealing a minute crackle. 
Height, 61%, inches. 


267 


263—MustTarp-YELLow GuosuLar BorrLe witH AUBERGINE Banps 
(Ch’ien-lung) 
Thin, clear white porcelain, invested with a mottled glaze of 
mustard-yellow, interrupted below the shoulder and again beneath 
the rim by narrow bands or borders of key-fret pattern incised 
in the paste and covered with an aubergine glaze of pale tone. 
Height, 6%, inches. 


264—DeticatE ELoncaTep Prar-sHAPED Vase (K’ang-hst) 


With slender neck and expanding lip, on a short circular foot. 
Covered with a monochrome glaze in the hue of polished lapis- 
lazuli, the glaze extending to the interior of the lip and under- 


neath the foot. 
Height, 534, inches. 


265—Borrie-rorm Vase In Pure Wuire (Cl’en-lung) 


Starting with a brief cylindrical section slightly incurving from 
the flat circular foot, the body swells gracefully, and quickly 
begins to taper to the tall, slender neck, which expands slightly 
and finishes in a thickened lip. Invested throughout with a 
luminous monochrome glaze of pure white, and perfect distribu- 


tion. Blue seal of Ch’ien-lung on the foot. 
Height, 7% inches. 


266—Lustrovus Mustarp-yeELLow Crackie Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 


Oviform, with high, sloping shoulder, short neck and lightly 
spreading lip. Covered with a glaze in the color of prepared 
mustard, spread with the finest of mustard-seed crackle and con- 
tinued over the interior of the mouth and underneath the foot, 
the glaze of great brilliancy and with metallic luster. 


Height, 61%, inches. 


267—Smatu Turevoise Borrie (Chien-lung) 


In pear-shape with a short tubular neck on a low circular foot. 
Invested with a nearly uniform crackle-glaze of turquoise-blue 
which thickens to accentuate the outlines of an underglaze decora- 
tion of a stork among lotus plants, etched and modeled in the 


paste. 
Height, 7 inches. 
- (Illustrated) 


268—Biack-PEARL QUADRANGULAR Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 


On a low, square foot, and with a short cylindrical neck, the high 
quadrilateral body having a narrow vertical smooth panel in 
the center of each face, extending to the height of the vase, bor- 
dered on either side by lateral moldings binding the corners as 
straps, with shorter intervening “straps” as reinforcements. 
Dense white porcelain, coated with a monochrome glaze in rep- 


resentation of the surface of the black pearl, with a metallic- 
mirror quality. 
Height, 7%, inches. 


269—Ceiapon Borrie (K’ang-hst) 


The globular body tapering to a narrow neck, with a bulbous 
expansion beneath the rudimentary white-glazed lip; on a low 
circular foot. Covered with a glaze of even quality and gray- 
ish sea-green hue, which, deepening in tone about the outlines 
and in the etched details of an intricate decoration executed 
in the paste, brings out the artist’s design in restrained and 
agreeable relief. The decoration is an involved and _ prolific 
representation of indeterminate monsters among a profusion of 
fungus scrolls. Private owner’s mark in six characters in blue 


within a double ring. 
Height, 81/4, inches. 


270—MazarIne-BLUE Borrie-rorm Vase (K’ang-hst) 


With globular body tapering to a graceful neck with a heavy 
bulbous lip; on a low foot. Pure white dense porcelain of 
K’ang-hsi coated with a brilliant monochrome glaze of mazarine- 


blue of mirror surface. 
Height, 8 inches. 


Q71—Invertep PrEaAr-sHApeD Vase (K’ang-hst) 


With lightly spreading foot and short, contracted neck. Coated 
with a slate-blue glaze—sometimes called starch blue—exhibiting 
a bold crackle in firm brown lines, both glaze and crackle carried 
throughout the interior of the vase and underneath the foot, the 
glaze left white at the rim but holding the crackle still. 


Height, 71% inches. 


272—Ovirorm Vase (K’ang-hst) 


With high shoulder tapering gracefully to a lightly spreading 
foot and with cylindrical neck slightly concaved. Invested with 
a brilliant monochrome glaze of cobalt-blue which deepens over 
a lightly penciled underglaze decoration of sprawling dragons — 
reaching for the sacred jewel amid flame scrolls. 


Height, 81%, inches. 


| 273—Lapris-LazuLi GLopuLarR Borrie-rorm Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


| Ovoidal body and sloping shoulder curving into a thick tubular 
| neck. Covered with a thick, unctuous and brilliant glaze of 
richly mottled lapis-lazuli quality, the glaze overflowing the rim 


and weltering about the foot. 
Height, 81, inches. 


274—Rozin’s-EGG Sourrté Gauirotr (Ch’ien-lung) 


| Coated with a thick, dense glaze of robin’s-egg blue soufflé 
i which takes a strong bluish trend at the expense of the mala- 
chite or robin’s-egg green tendency, and under the shoulder 


presents a sort of waterfall effect. 
Height, 81, inches. 


275—CELapon Gaxiipor (K’ang-hsi) 


Dense porcelain, covered with a celadon glaze of purest sea- 
green tint and brilliant surface over a luxuriant ornamentation 
of affluent peony blossoms and foliations modeled in low relief 
in the paste and etched. White-glazed foot. 

Height, 83, inches. 


276—Tari, GraceFruL Ovirorm Vase IN PEARL-GRAY WITH CRACKLE 
(K’ang-hst) 

With high shoulder, the recurving body 
tapering toward the foot, and high, wide 
neck. The entire exterior covered with 
a pearl-gray glaze and minute mosaic 
crackle, the lip and interior of the neck 
with a black matt glaze. 


Height, 1134 inches. 


977—MAZARINE-BLUE GLOBULAR Borrie 


(K’ang-hsi) 


Tapering to a neck recurving in a bulbous 
lip. Clear white porcelain, coated 
throughout with a mirror-glaze of deep 


mazarine-blue. 
: Height, 121, inches. 


278—Rosr-sourrLeE Ovirorm Vase (Ch’ien- 
lung) 


Shoulder steeply sloping, wide neck 
lightly spreading. Clear, resonant white porcelain coated 
throughout the exterior surface, interior of neck and under 
the foot with a luminous glaze of rose-soufflé, minutely blown 
with delicate effect. 


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Height, 9 inches. 


279—Tvrevoise Grosutar Botrie-sHareD Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


With slightly tapering neck and low foot. Covered with a mirror- 
glaze of turquoise-blue, revealing in places a fine crackle, the 
hue shifting in various mottles and patches to turquoise-green. 
At the base the glaze thickens and presents rich, deep black sur- 


faces. 
Height, 91% inches. 


280—Gracerut Lapis-BLUE Borrie (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid body and very slightly expanding neck. Invested with a 
brilliant glaze of lapis-lazuli blue which, deepening in incisions 
in the paste, brings out with a modest reticence a delicate etching 
of blossoming tree peonies extending from the foot nearly to the 


rim on one face of the vase. 
Height, 9% inches. 


281—ImreriaL YeLLow Gincer Jar (K’ang-hst) ; 


With carved teakwood cover. Pure white, dense porcelain, cov- 
ered with a glaze of Imperial yellow hue, and having a carved 
jade dragon medallion, in openwork, in the carved openwork 


cover. 
Height, 814 inches. 


282—Turevoise BotrLte (Ch’ien-lung) 


The graceful gourd-shaped body, on a low circular foot, tapering 
to a tubular neck. Clear white hard paste, invested with a 
glaze of soft, delicately mottled turquoise-blue, which extends 
within the interior of the neck and underneath the foot. 


Height, 11 inches. 


283—CHERRY-RED GLOBULAR BotrLe (K’ang-hst) 


With tubular neck. Coated with a monochrome glaze of mirror- 
quality in cherry hue, the rim and interior of the neck glazed 
in pure white. Has carved teakwood stand embellished with 
green ivory. 

Height, 101% inches (with stand, 13%, inches). 


284—Morrriep Lapis-stueE GrospuLtar Borrie-sHaPED Vase (K’ang- 
hst) 
Pure white sonorous porcelain, coated with a fluent glaze of 
waved and mottled blue in lapis-lazuli tones and markings from 
the white-glazed rim to the perfect foot. At the base of the 
neck the glaze discloses a circle of gray-moss-agate quality, 
streaked with the darker blue mottlings. Penciled beneath the 
white-glazed foot: T'a-Ming K’ang-hsi nien-chih. 
q Height, 1134 inches. 


285—Darxk-BLuE Borrie-sHarpep Vase (Ci’ien-lung) 


Ovoid body, with sloping shoulder and short tubular neck. Cov- 
ered with a glaze of deep, dark, purplish-blue, varying to azure 
and marked on one side by mottlings of malachite and the green 
of the washed turquoise. The glaze continues over the interior 
of the neck... i 


Height, 13 inches. 


286—Burnt-orance Grosutar Botrre-sHarepD Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Of ovoid curvature and slightly tapering neck with flaring lip. 
Covered with a brilliant glaze of dusky yellow or burnt-orange 


hue, marked by mahogany-brown about the foot. 
Height, 12 inches. 


287—Dovus.e-courp Ercuep Vase (Yung Chéng) 


Of soft, creamy-white tone and gently undulant surface. All- 
over decoration of blossoming peonies and leaf and floral scrolls 
lightly etched in the paste beneath the glaze, and brought out 
more clearly in the semi-translucent material when a light is 
placed within the vessel. A border of Greek fret separates 
the upper gourd from the larger body below, and a similar 
border is found beneath the lip; both, like the rest of the orna- 
mentation, etched in the paste and uncolored. Interior of neck 
and the foot also glazed. 

Height, 13 inches. 


288—Mrrror-Biack Borrie (K’ang-hst) 


With ovoid body and short, wide neck. Clear, dense porcelain 
of K’ang-hsi, covered with a mirror glaze with the depth and 
blackness of night. Within the foot and the interior of the 
neck, white glaze with a brown crackle. 

Height, 14 inches. 


289—Roprin’s-Ece SourF_é Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Of bottle form, with portly ovoid low body, and graceful neck 
very slightly in-curved. Covered evenly with a fine robin’s-egg 
blue or mingled sky-blue and turquoise-green soufflé glaze of 
dull luster and unctuous surface, the glaze carried over to the 
interior of the neck and underneath the foot. 

Height, 131% inches. 


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290—Merattic SourrLt&’ Borrie-rorm Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoidal body, slightly compressed, on a circular foot, with wide 
neck and expanding lip. Coated with a curious glaze of mottled 
mahogany and olive tones at the lip, which streams downward in 
wayward, confused striations and finely comminuted fleckings 
over the neck and the broad shoulder, in the hue of iron-rust, the 
small ferruginous cascade merging finally in tenuous sprays in 
a rich, dark seal-brown flood which covers underbody and foot. 


Height, 1334 inches. 


291—Larce Turauoist Borrite-sHaPep Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Light, resonant porcelain, gracefully fashioned in a globular- 
ovoidal body with a tall wide neck and everted lip. Covered 
with a luminous glaze of delicate turquoise-blue, slightly mottled, 
a fine fish-roe crackle running throughout and the glaze over- 
flowing to a considerable distance the interior of the neck. 
Height, 131, inches. 


292—Brituianr PurreLe Borrie (Ch ien-lung) 


Broad-shouldered ovoid body and large straight neck. Invested 
with a deep, dark, intense purple glaze of mirror surface, gray- 
ing slightly about the rim and carried over and half-way down 


the interior of the neck. 
Height, 131 inches. 


293—Derr-BLuE Prar-sHapepd Vase (Chien-lung) 


With short neck, expanding in a trumpet lip, on a circular foot. 
Invested with a wavering glaze of Sévres-blue tone which is 
marked by those straggling lines—as of a trickling waterfall— 
which were characteristic of the Lang monochromes of the pre- 
ceding century. (So much so that it has been hailed with the 


conscious anachronism, “A blue Lang-yao!’’) 
1 Height, 131%, inches. 


294—Turevotsk QUADRILATERAL CENSER witH Cover (Chien-lung) 


Oblong, on four animal-head legs with outward-curving rounded 
feet; two upright loop-handles; the cover surmounted by a Fu- 
lion on his haunches, with head turned to one side. The entire 
surface, exterior and interior, of both box and cover enameled 
with a honeycomb crackle-glaze of turquoise-blue and turquoise- 
green of brilliant quality. 


Height, 144% inches; length, 9 inches. 


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295—Rosin’s-Ece Sourrre Borrie-suarepd Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


_Globular-ovoidal body with flattened shoulder and tubular neck. 
Characteristic unctuous glaze, with dull metallic luster, in the 
confusion of blue and green notes giving the “robin’s-egg blue” 
soufflé. . 

Height, 131% inches. 


296—Coxgatr Botrie (Yung Chéng) 


With full, broad-shouldered ovoid body, and gracefully con- 
tracted neck expanding very slightly toward the rim. Pure 
white Yung Chéng porcelain of a clear, ringing note, overspread 
with a glaze of deep cobalt-blue flowing evenly to a perfectly 
finished foot. Rim and interior of the neck glazed in white. 
Mark, penciled in black within a double ring of blue on the 
white-glazed foot: T’a-Ch’ing Yung Chéng nien-chih (Made in 
the reign of Yung Chéng of the great Ch’ing [the recently over- 
thrown] dynasty). 


Height, 10 inches. 


“SUPERB SPECIMENS 


OF 


PEACHBLOOM, CLAIR-DE-LUNE, APPLE-GREEN, CORAL-RED AND 
SANG-DE-BCEUF 


| 297—Mintature Cuair-DE-LUNE Coure (K’ang-hsi) 


With squat, swelling body and wide neck. Pure white porcelain, 
covered with a delicate clair-de-lune glaze of a pale elusive 
lavender and gray-blue aspect. (Bears a Ming mark.) 


298—SmaLuL Cuairn-DE-LUNE Jar (Yuan) 


Pear-shape, on low, circular foot, the body drawn up to a very 
small orifice at the top. Coated with a clair-de-lune glaze of 
bluish tinge, with a fine crackle in pale-brown lines and a few 
light splashes of purple. (Repaired.) 

Height, 234 inches. 


299—Cuair-DE-LUNE Coupe (Yuan) 


Dense vibrant porcelain, covered with a thick, viscous glaze of 
clair-de-lune suggestion, brilliant in surface, with grayish-blue 
tone, and marked with violet, purple and iron-rust patches, and 


with a subtle crackle. 
Diameter, 31% inches. 


300—T'wo Wrirer’s Low Circurar PracHsLtoom WarTer Cups 
(K’ang-hst) 


Covered by a rich and lustrous peachbloom glaze, varying from 
the soft pink of the downy coat of a peach to the green of 
tender moss in the woods, with sundry fleckings and mottlings, 
and deepening in channels of the molded paste to tones of velvet 
black. Covers of fei-t’sui jade carved in representation of the 
persimmon. One has a gilded water-spoon with a duck’s head 
handle. 


Diameters, 21% inches and 234, inches. 


301—Rv Lane-yao Giozutar Jar (Early K’ang-hst) 


Heavy, dense porcelain of early K’ang-hsi, coated with a soft 
apple-green glaze of subdued luster, flowing evenly to the low 
foot and marked by a heavy, bold crackle in brown lines. These 
apple-green vases are known in China as Ru Lang-yao. Mounted 
with a gold mouth-rim. 

Height, 3%, inches; diameter, 41% inches. 


302—Borrie-rorm Pracusioom Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


With slender neck, and tapering gracefully from the rounded 
shoulder to its perfect foot. Covered with a _ wmellifluous 
glaze of the merged and mingling hues of dried rose-leaves in the 
fluent, speckled, waning pink known as ashes-of-roses. The neck 
ends in a gold ring. 

Height, 614 inches. 


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303—Crack1 ; 3 APPLE-GREEN Borrir (K’ang-hsi) 


Ovoid body and short, very slightly 
expanding neck. Glazed in a_ pale 
apple-green with a pronounced crackle 
in dark lines. Interior of neck and 
the foot have a gray-white glaze with 


yellow-brown crackle. 
Height, 6 inches. 


304—CLaAIR-DE-LUNE CovuPprE, or WRiITER’S 
Warer-sar (K’ang-hsi) 

Low ovoidal body, with narrow shoul- 
der infolding to a wide mouth. Cov- 
ered with a luminous glaze of purest 
clair-de-lune or “moonlight white” of 
beautiful quality—the interior  simi- 
larly glazed. Underneath the white- 
glazed foot in firmly penciled calli- 
graphic characters: Ta-Ch’ing K’ang- 
hst nten-chth (Made in the reign of 
K’ang-hsi of the great Ch’ing [the 
303 ‘ lately ousted] dynasty). 


Diameter, 4 inches. 


(Illustrated) 
305—Ciair-DE-LUNE Vase (K’ang-hst) 


Of slender form, its rounded lower body on a small circular 
foot tapering gracefully into a narrow, attenuated neck, with 
a slightly spreading lip. Pure white K’ang-hsi porcelain, suf- 
fused, it seems, rather than coated with a moonlight glaze of 
the purest clair-de-lune quality, with a rouge-de-fer rim—the 
interior of the neck glazed in white. 

(Illustrated) Height, 5 inches. 


306—C.air-DE-LUNE Vase (K’ang-hst) 


In ovoidal baluster or elongated pear-shape, on a low foot, with 
a short everted lip. Covered with a clair-de-lune glaze of pale 
lavender tone and equable distribution, the rim glazed in iron- 
rust brown and the interior of the neck in white. 


(Illustrated) Height, 5% inches. 


307—Wrirter’s Water RECEPTACLE IN Rare PracuBioom (K’ang- 
hsi) 


Semi-globular, with short contracted neck. Dense, heavy por- 
celain of K’ang-hsi, coated with a lustrous glaze of the char- 
acteristic peachbloom quality, displaying rose-pink and ashes-of- 
roses surfaces, with rich and generous expanses of the prized 
green mottling, covering without concealing three large scroll 
medallions delicately etched in the paste. 

(Illustrated) _— 


308—Wrirer’s Water Jar in Peacusioom (K’ang-hsi) 


Semi-globular body, with short contracted neck. Covered, over 
a scrolled decoration delicately etched in the paste, with a glaze — 
of pale peachbloom tint having a multitude of deeper fleckings. 


Diameter, 5 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


309—APpPLE-GREEN CrackLepD DisH (K’ang-hsi) 


Circular-ovoidal low body with wide mouth, on three rudimentary 
feet. Dense porcelain covered with an apple-green glaze of dull, 
metallic luster and crackled in brown lines, the interior exhibit- 
ing a brilliant glaze of gray-celadon with crackle. 


Diameter, 544, inches. 


310—Rv Lane-yao Gatutpot (Early K’ang-hsi) 


With small mouth and short lip, 
over a broad, boldly swelling shoul- 
der, tapering gracefully below and 
recurving for a_ very _ slightly 
spreading foot. Glaze’ of apple- 
green marked with a bold crackle in 
brown lines. The apple-green vases 
of this character and glaze are 
known in China always as Ru Lang- 
yao. 


Height, 51%, inches. 


311—InvertTEeD PrarR-sHAPE SANG-DE- 
peur Vase (K’ang-hst) 


Lang-yao, with spreading foot and 
short cylindrical neck. Coated with 
a fluent, lustrous glaze of ox-blood 
= hue, crackled throughout, and ex- 
310 hibiting gray mottlings and about 

the foot pale sea-green notes. 
Underneath the foot a crackled celadon glaze; interior of neck 


glazed in a gray-white with fine brown crackle. 
Height, 6% inches. 


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312—Appie-creEN Ovo Jar (K’ang-hst) 


Short neck with thickened lip. Dense porcelain, covered with 
a luminous glaze of pale apple-green, with a bold crackle in 
brown lines. Interior of neck and underneath the foot, gray, 
with café-au-lait crackle. 

Height, 51%, inches. 


313—SvuPerB Corat-reD Borris (Yung Chéng) 


With spherical body tapering into a very slender cylindrical 
neck. Covered with a mirror-glaze of light coral tone, uni- 
formly spread and of even brilliance, finishing at a well-defined 


white rim. 
Height, 7, inches 


(Illustrated) 


314—RemarkaBiy Fine Corat-rep Borrite (Yung Chéng) 


With pear-shaped body, beautifully tapering shoulder and 
straight, slender neck. Invested with a mirror-glaze of rich 
coral, of a fascinating tone and texture and even distribution. 
Height, 8%, inches. 

(Illustrated) 


315—Svurers Tart Corat-rep Vase (Yung Chéng) 


With ten-pin shaped body and sloping shoulder, and wide, full 
neck. Pure white Yung Chéng porcelain, covered with a mottled 
coral glaze of dull luster and metallic suggestions. 


Height, 10 inches. 
(Illustrated) . 


316—Cuair-DE-LUNE GuosuLaR BotrLe (Chien-lung) —— — — 


Tapering to a short neck with a bulbous 
lip; on a circular foot. Covered with a 
brilliant glaze of the pale clatr-de-lune or 
“moonlight white,” of perfect distribu- 
tion, and finely crackled in faint lines, the 
crackle on neck and lip being more pro- 
nounced in brown lines. The demarcation 
of neck from body indicated by a molding 
in the paste. Glaze and crackle extend 
within the lip and to the foot, which bears 
the seal of Ch’ien-lung. 

Height, 1114 inches. 


317—Rare Brive Lanec-yao BOoTTLE-SHAPED 
VasE (Early K’ang-hst) 


With its neck widening very slightly 
toward the lip, and a low, circular foot. 
316 Invested with a beautiful, finely crackled 
glaze of light turquoise-blue, with the 
wavering longitudinal striations which are characteristic of the 
true Lang porcelain. The glaze deepens toward the base of the 
neck. Undoubtedly a production of the famous Lang prefecture 
at Ching-té-Chen. 


Height, 734, inches. 


318—PracuBioom Borrie-sHaPepD Vase (K’ang-hst) 


Ovoidal body, with almost flat shoulder and tall, slender, tubular 
neck. Dense, early K’ang-hsi porcelain, covered with a rarely 
handsome glaze of the peachbloom variety, exhibiting the char- 
acteristic variations of pink, gray, ashes-of-roses and a most 
delicate green with mottlings and fleckings. On the shoulder 
a green three-clawed Shih-lung dragon sprawls, grasping the 
neck. ‘The peachbloom glaze is characteristically crackled, the 
green glaze covering the dragon is without crackle. (Neck re- 
stored.) On the foot the six-character mark of K’ang-hsi. 


Height, 8 inches. 


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319—ImreriaL CeLapon Fiower Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


Of heavy, vibrant porcelain, fashioned in the lines of the peach- 
bloom vases, with the same two white rings in relief at the base 
of the neck and the same mark underneath. It is covered with a 
pale celadon monochrome glaze of purest sea-green tint—a hue 
called by the Chinese, as applied to these vases, pea-green—vary- 
ing slightly in tone so as to bring out the decoration worked in 
relief in the paste. This consists of a fringe of scrolled sea- 
waves from which project the bodies of two three-clawed dragons. 
Mark, clearly penciled in cobalt-blue: T'a-Ch’ing K’ang-hsi nien- 
chth (Made in the reign of K’ang-hsi of the great Ch’ing [the 
lately overthrown] dynasty). 

A rarely beautiful example of K’ang-hsi porcelain. <A similar 
vase is in the Walters Gallery, Baltimore. 


Height, 7, inches. 
(Illustrated) 


320—Rare APPLE-GREEN Larce GiosuiarR Jar (K’ang-hsi) 


With short everted lip and wide mouth. Dense, heavy, pure 
porcelain, covered with a luminous glaze of a rare and delicate 
apple-green hue in remarkable purity of tone, uniformly distribu- 
ted and marked throughout by a sharp, wandering crackle 
in light brown lines. The interior of the lip and of the entire 
jar is covered with a brilliant gray-white glaze, pervaded by 
the same brown erackle. Produced under the prefecture of the 
great Lang in the early part of the reign of K’ang-hsi. Has 

elaborately carved stand. 
Height, 8 inches; diameter, 8°4 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


321— REMARKABLE SANG-DE-B@UF VaAsE (K’ang-hst) 


In shape unique among the Lang productions. Its globular 
body, on a low foot, is extended into a gracefully tapering neck, 
recurving in a broad, spreading lip with a white rim. In glowing 
richness of color the vase is more nearly comparable with the 
famous bottle in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (retained 
in Mr. Morgan’s library), which is known as ‘The Ruby,” than 
any other example of Lang-yao known to have reached this 
country. The perfect, lustrous glaze is brilliant as flame, re- 
flects the glow of the ruby, deepens to garnet and carbuncle, 
lightens to ashes-of-roses, takes again the rich hue of the ox- 
blood and is marked by darker fleckings or “tears” of the con- 
gealing blood. Crackled throughout; the interior of the lip 
having a pale celadon glaze with a light brown crackle. A pro- 
duction of the prefecture of the great Lang, in the first score 


of years of the august reign of K’ang-hsi. 
Height, 1414 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


322—T att Ovirorm Lane-yao Vase (Early K’ang-hst) 


Tapering gracefully to a lightly spreading foot, the sloping 
shoulder recurving in the short wide neck to a slightly expanding 
lip. Coated with an effulgent glaze of rich sang-de-beuf, the 
glowing blood-red hue deepening at the base of the neck and 
toward the foot, lightening elsewhere to a rosy-gray, again 
offering a ruby glint, crackled throughout and brilliant as flame. 
Underneath the perfect foot a crackled celadon glaze. 


Height, 17 inches. 


_ $23—Tari Lane-yao Vasr or Rare Corortne (K’ang-hsi) 


Oviform, with high and narrow shoulder, and graceful taper to 
the slightly spreading foot; short, wide neck and flaring lip. 
Coated with a rare glaze involving tones of both the peachbloom 
and sang-de-beuf porcelains, varying from a pearl-gray and 
ashes-of-roses to the hue of the speckled red apple, and flowing 
perfectly to an even foot, where it thickens and the color deepens 
in a uniform circle to the deep hue of clotted blood. Underneath 
the foot a celadon glaze; interior of neck glazed in white. 


Height, 18 inches 


324—Rosr-pu-Barry Borrie-Frorm Vase (Chien-lung) 


An example of. rare quality. Ovoid, with full neck very slightly 
curving. Clear resonant porcelain, coated with a perfect rose- 
du-Barry glaze of peau d orange surface and dull luster. The 
interior of the neck and the foot are glazed in pistache-green, 
and the foot bears the Imperial seal-mark of Ch’ien-lung in coral 


on white reserve. 
Height, 12% inches. 
(Illustrated) 


325—AppLE-RED Lane-yao Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


Of bottle shape, with full, globular body and tall, gracefully 
tapering neck. Covered with a thick, brilliant sang-de-beuf 
glaze, varying from a rosy apple-red to the deeper ox-blood tones 
and receding again to ashes-of-roses, and toward the top of 
the neck to rose-pink and a soft gray—a bold crackle running 
throughout. The rim is enameled in brown. Underneath the 
foot and in the interior of the neck, a rice-color glaze with brown 


crackle. 
Height, 16 inches. 
(Illustrated) 


326—GuoBpuLaR Lane-yao Botte (K’ang-hsi) 


With tall, straight neck. Enameled with a deep and crackled 
glaze in the various tones of the peachblooms—rose-pink with 
deeper fleckings, ashes-of-roses, and the characteristic tinted 
grays. Rim and interior of neck glazed in white. 


Height, 161% inches. 
(Illustrated) 


327—OvirorM APPLE-GREEN CRACKLE Jar (K’ang-hst) 


Contracting briefly from the foot, the body then swells in grace- 
ful ovoid curve to a shoulder of rather steep slope ending in a 
short wide neck. Coated with a bright, clear apple-green glaze 
of metallic luster, boldly crackled in brown lines. Lip and entire 
interior covered with a gray-white glaze strongly marked by the 
brown crackle with lesser spaces. (Repaired.) 


Height, 151, inches. 


328—LaPis-LAZULI BorTLE-sHAPED Vase (Ch ien-lung) 


Ovoid body and thick neck. Clear, heavy porcelain, covered uni- 
formly with a deep, brilliant lapis-blue glaze verging upon purple, 
the glaze overflowing and continuing down the interior of the 


neck. 
Height, 141% inches. 


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329—Brivuianr Mirror-siack Ovirorm Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


With high shoulder and neck and lightly flaring lip. Clear white 
porcelain of K’ang-hsi, coated below the white-glazed rim with 
a pure black monochrome glaze of liquid depths and remarkable 
brilliancy—the pure tone and rich quality preserved perfectly 
throughout. Marked beneath the foot with a double ring in 


blue, on white glaze. 
Height, 1734, inches. 


330—SuPerB Pracock-sive Borris (Ch’ien-lung) 


Clear, dense, sonorous porcelain in globular-ovoidal bottle-form, 
with full, tall, cylindrical neck; covered with a mirror-glaze of 
lustrous peacock-blue, universally crackled in dark lines, the 


glaze overflowing the neck. 
Height, 17 inches. 


331—Royat Purrre Tart Beaxer (Karly K’ang-hst) 


Dense, heavy porcelain in characteristic beaker-form, with a bold 
decoration modeled in the paste, covered with a brilliant purple 
glaze on both exterior and interior surfaces. The decoration, 
incised and in relief, comprises archaic animals and one of the 
twelve ancient embroidery ornaments on the midband, with palma- 
tions of banana leaves pointing upward and downward above and 


below the band. 
Height, 161, inches. 


332—Parr Imperran Yettow Ovorw Jars (K’ang-hst) 


333—Borrie-rorm Tra-pust Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


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Pure white porcelain of K’ang-hsi, enameled with a brilliant 
glaze of pale, bright Imperial yellow; foot and interior glazed 
in white. Mark, the six characters of K’ang-hsi penciled in blue 
under the glaze. 

Height, 834 inches. 


With globular-ovoidal body contracting to a graceful neck very 
slightly expanding. Covered uniformly with a tea-dust glaze, 
the green so dark as to be almost a black, and the glaze being 
carried to the interior of the neck and underneath the foot. 
The rim olive-yellow and mahogany-brown. 


Height, 1434 inches. 


334—Larce Borrie-snapep Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Pure white heavy sonorous porcelain, in an ovoidal and some- 
what squat body on a bold foot, with full neck and flaring lip; 
covered with a mirror-glaze of a dense, opaque blue with mixed 
purplish and cobalt suggestion. Ch’ien-lung seal mark in blue 
on the white glazed foot. 

Height, 13 inches 


Spherical bodies, tapering into tall, 
slender necks which finish with metal 
rims. Invested with a thick, deep, 
brilliant glaze of mirror-black penciled 
with an affluence of floral decoration 
in gold. Springing from a base border 
of stems and scrolls, a luxuriance of 
gracefully bending sprigs and_ blos- 
soms of chrysanthemum in gold over- 
spreads the bodies, connecting above 
with a shoulder band of four foliate 
medallions on a ground of hexagonal 
lattice, the medallions enclosing each 
an active animal, in different attitudes. 
Above this again an alternating border 
of long and shorter conventional palm 
leaves, pointing upward, surrounds the 
neck, which bears another narrow 
scrolled border beneath the rim. 


Height, 16% inches. 


336—Larce Turauoisr Borrie-sHarep Vase (Chien-lung) 


Ovoidal-globular body and full neck with slightly flaring lp. 
Coated with a finely crackled glaze in the hue of the green or 
washed turquoise, which extends for a considerable way down 


the interior of the neck. 


(Lip slightly cracked.) 
Height, 1334 inches. 


337—Wipr Imprria, YeLLow Bow. (K’ang-hsi) 


Ovoid, on a short cylindrical foot, the graceful contour recurv- 
ing to a lightly spreading thin lip. Sonorous white porcelain, 
glowing in a glaze of Imperial-yellow glory, pure, lustrous, 
covering uniformly the exterior and interior surfaces, which are 


without other adornment. 


On the white-glazed foot, penciled in 


blue within a blue double ring: Ta-Ch’ing K’ang-hsi nien-chih 
(Made in the reign of K’ang-hsi of the great Ch’ing [the re- 
cently overthrown] dynasty). On a teakwood stand having five 
carved dragon legs with claw and ball feet. 


Diameter, 14 inches; height, 634 inches. 


| 338—CyuinpricaL Cius-sHAPED Powper-BLuE Vase (K’ang-hst) 


iq With well-defined foot, flat shoulder, short wide neck and flanged 
| lip. Smooth surface throughout, with a lightly molded band 
| around the neck. Sonorous hard-paste white porcelain covered 
| with a luminous glaze of powder-blue of rich quality, a ring of 
white reserved at the base of the lip and the interior glazed in 
| white. Mark, the blue double ring. 


Height, 17% inches. 


339—Rosin’s-ece Sourrr4h Tart Vase (Chien-lung) 


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I Of club-form with ovoidal body, narrow sloping shoulder, wide 
i neck and flaring lip. Clear porcelain covered with a rich, unctu- 
| ous glaze of robin’s-egg soufflé with a dull luster, the glaze ex- 
4 tending to the interior of the neck and underneath the foot, and 
i exhibiting in equable distribution the characteristic blue and 
| green tones. 


Height, 151% inches. 


340—REMARKABLE CyitinpricaL Cius-sHarep Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


-Mirror-black, decorated with both gold and silver. A very 


rare decoration, these vases usually having only gold. The 
mirror-black glaze, which coats the exterior throughout except 
for a white stripe at the upper and lower edges of the flanged 
lip, is of the raven’s-wing variety, with lustrous metallic reflec- 
tions. The rich abundance of the gold and silver ornamentation 
on the body includes blossoming tree peonies, magnolia flowers, 
birds perched and flying, singly and in pairs, among them the 
pheasant and the duck, and a leaf-scroll border—many blossoms 
being silver on golden stems and branches. A further border of 
hexagonal silver grill, with reserved medallions adorned with 
sprays in silver and gold, surrounds the shoulder, and the neck 
is encompassed by a deep chain-lattice of gold with silver florea- 
tions in the interstices and large foliate medallions picturing 
silver rabbits in the light of the golden full moon. Around the 


lip a narrow fret band. 
Height, 18 inches. 


341—-Larcr Buiue Crackie Borrie-sHarpep Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid body with full neck and slightly-flaring lip, on deep cir- 
cular foot. Coated with a lustrous glaze which varies in hue 
from the blue and the green turquoise to “‘peacock-blue,” and 
exhibiting numerous vertical streakings characteristic of the tur- 
quoise-blues and the sang-de-beufs. Marked throughout with a 
fine crackle, glaze and crackle extending to the interior of the 
neck and underneath the foot. (Slhght repair at the lip.) 


Height, 161%, inches. 


342—Mirror-BLACK CYLINDRICAL CLUB-SHAPED VASE wiITH GOLD 
ORNAMENT (K’ang-hsi) 


Brilliant black glaze with metallic, raven’s-wing luster, flowed 
evenly to a perfect foot. Floral bands and borders in gold divide 
the body into reserved panels and medallions, two large oblong 
panels on opposite faces of the vase, and between them at either 
side a small quadrilateral panel beneath a circular medallion, 
each adorned with trees or flowers. A shoulder band presents 
conventional scrolls and fillets and reserve polyfoil medallions ; 
and on the neck, between sundry narrow borders, are three 
cranes, with widespread wing-feathers curved into the form of 
circular medallions surrounding the body of the bird. On the 
lip, a band of scroll-fret. 

Height, 18 inches. 


3483—Parr Macniricent Lanc-yao FLower-pots (K’ang-hsi) 


Tapering form, with gilt rims. Dense K’ang-hsi porcelain, 
coated with a brilliant sang-de-bauf glaze, crackled and having 
the characteristic variations of the ancient sacrificial red, 
through glowing ruby to flame and the gray of the peachblooms, 
the whole resplendent in effect. Mark underneath, the blue 
double ring. The pots contain a variety of orchid plant, with 
fronds of green undersurface and blue above, gilt-yeined, in 
Pekin enamel, with clusters of seeds in pink coral. 


Height, 10 inches. 
(Illustrated) 


344—Masestic Groputar Mazarine Botrie (Yung Chéng) 


Of glowing brilliancy, in a deep, intense and luminous, thick 
monochrome glaze of mazarine-blue, rich in quality and with a 
mirror surface. The glaze displays a pronounced and unusual 
crackle in longitudinal lines, from a point on the full, thick, 
graceful neck to the base. On the upper part of the neck it 
shows a series of lateral striations in lighter hue, the glaze paling 
to cobalt tones just under the white rim. 


Height, 18%, inches; diameter, 14 inches. 


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345—Pair or Impertan YeLtow Jars (K’ang-hsi) 


Ovoid body, with short, larg neck, and low, lightly spreading 
foot modeled and depressed from the interior. Clear, pure 
white porcelain, covered throughout the exterior surface, in- 
cluding the bottom of the foot, with a luminous, brilliant glaze 
of Imperial yellow, deepening slightly in tone on the gracefully 
curving shoulder. The interiors are glazed in white. Hat- 


shaped, teakwood covers. 
ITeight, 12%, inches; diameter, 101% inches. 


346—Patr Masestic Mirror-pirack Larce Grosutar Borriues 
(Ch’ien-lung) 


Pure white porcelain of the Ch’ien-lung period, covered with a 
brilliant glaze of deep mirror-black, which overflows the rim, 
the interior of the neck being glazed in white. Above a narrow 
foot-border of sea waves, numerous huge four-clawed dragons, 
penciled with great precision, are engaged in the favorite pursuit 
of the flaming jewel, their scaled and scrolling bodies encircling 
the vase all the way to the tall, straight neck. Seal-mark of 
Ch’ien-lung underneath the foot. 


Height, 19 inches; diameter, 14% inches. 


CHOICE BLUE AND WHITE SPECIMENS 


347—Sma.u Pear-sHarpeD Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


On a low foot, with slender neck and spreading lip. Pure 
white porcelain with a detached decoration of Buddhistic em- 
blems and motives from the “Hundred Antiques,” daintily 
enameled in the five colors of K’ang-hsi and delicately penciled. 
The colors blue, green, yellow, red and aubergine. (Apocryphal 


mark of Hsiian Té.) 
Height, 41/4, inches. 


348—Buivr anp Wuire Cyzinpricat Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


ok plain, straight cylinder or tube, covered with a crackle glaze 
of soft, creamy white, and lightly penciled in two tones of cobalt- 
blue with a rocky landscape scene enclosing water, and a man 


fishing industriously from a ledge of rock. 
Height, 5 inches. 


349—Smatt Crius-sHarep Vase (Yung Cheng) 


An exquisite little specimen of the so-called “soft paste,” covered 
with a milk-white crackle glaze and delicately penciled in varying 
shades of blue with two figures—one a lady feeding a bird perched 
in his swing—and household ornaments, lines of the decoration 
being carried up to the neck where two flying bats appear. 
Height, 43/4 inches. 


350—Buve anv Wuirte Bortrie-sHarep Vase (K’ang-hst) 


Ovoid body, with a full, very slightly expanding neck, on low 
foot. Profusely painted under the brilliant glaze with an en- 
lacement of the sacred lotus flower and scroll, a narrow border of 
diamond-grill encircling the neck beneath a brilliant sapphire 
band of palmations. Six-character mark of Hsiian Té (apoc- 
ryphal). 
(Illustrated) Height, 9 inches. 


351—Buve anp Wuirte Imperiat Ovirorm Vase (K’ang-hsi) 


With rounding shoulder and tapering to a narrow flat foot. 
Short cylindrical neck. Pure white porcelain, with a brilliant 
glaze of metallic luster. Penciled under the glaze in cobalt and 

| deeper blue with two four-clawed dragons, sprawling amid fire- 
| scrolls. Of the same manufacture as the peachblooms. Mark 

A in blue beneath the white-glazed foot, the six characters of 
| K’ang-hsi within the blue double ring. 


(Illustrated) Height, 10 inches. 


352—Buvure anp Wuite Imperiat Ovirorm Vase (K’ang-hst) 


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With flattened shoulder and tapering to a narrow flat foot. Short 
cylindrical neck. Pure white, vibrant porcelain, of the same 
manufacture as the peachblooms, finely penciled in two tones 
of underglaze cobalt-blue with two ascending five-clawed dragons 
and fire-scrolls. Mark, T’a-Ch’ing K’ang-hsi nien-chih in blue 
under the white-glazed foot. 
(Illustrated) Height, 10 inches. 


IVORY-WHITE STATUETTES 


353—Mine Fu-cuine Sratuetre or Daruma Seatep (Ming) 


ll The figure sits with legs crossed under the body, clad in flowing 
i robes which expose the bared breast and enfold both hands. Eye- 
t brows and whiskers are curiously modeled and incised in scrolled 
; forms, and there are the prolonged ear-lobes of wisdom. Glazed 
; in the characteristic cream-white of the period. a 
| (Illustrated) Height, 91% inches. ‘ a 


354—STATUETTE oF Kuan-yin Seatep (Ming) 


The Chinese goddess of mercy sits on a throne of rockery, one 
foot doubled under her and resting her hands—one of them 
holding a scroll—on the opposite upraised knee. Behind her is 
a bundle of books. Her hair is dressed comparatively low and 
on her breast a single floral jewel shows. In soft, cream-white 
Fu-ching ware of the Ming dynasty. 

(Illustrated) Height, 12 inches. 


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355—Fu-cuine Sranpine Figure or Kvan-yin (Ming) 


With hair dressed relatively low and head slightly inclined for- 
ward, the goddess, gazing downward, is shown standing or walk- 
ing on a base of conventionalized wave forms. Both hands are 
held in front of her, one gracefully hanging down, the other held 
shghtly forward with palm exposed. The whole glazed in the 
characteristic cream-white of the period of its origin, which was 


during the regnancy of the Mings. 
Height, 1614 inches. 


356—Sranpine Ficure or Kvan-yin (Chien-lung) 


Heavy, stone-weight Fu-ching ware with snow-white glaze. The 
goddess of mercy wears flowing robes which are blown aside 
toward the bottom as though in a breeze, and stands with one 
bared foot revealed. In her right hand she holds a scroll, with 
the left hand lightly poised over it. She wears a lotus diadem 
and the conventional necklace on her exposed breast. 


Height, 19% inches. 


357—Ivory-wHiTEe Fu-cuine SraTuetTre or Kuan-yin (Ming) 


Seated on the folds of her robes on the ground, supporting her- 
self with one hand on the ground at her side, leaning slightly 
toward it and bent forward, with one bared foot projecting in 
front of her and her other hand hanging gracefully over her 
raised knee. She wears the diadem, a bracelet and a scepter- 
head necklace, and her headdress is high. The whole in a thin 
monochrome glaze of ivory-white over dense Fu-ching stone- 


ware. 
Height, 103, inches. 


(Illustrated) 


SUNG AND MING POTTERY 


358—SEMI-EGGSHELL OvormaL WuitE Bown (Sung) 


Springing from a narrow circular foot and expanding rapidly 
i to a wide mouth. The entire interior adorned with an elaborate 
incised decoration in three divisions, a central concave medal- 
lion and a broad band embracing all the rest of the surface up to 
a narrow border. In the medallion are waves, seaweed and other 
aquatic plant-forms, engraved about the twin-fishes—emblems of 
marital felicity—modeled in low relief in the paste and etched. 
The side-band carries full-blown peonies and bending leaf-stems, 
and is succeeded by a border of serpentine scroll beneath the 
brim. (Ting-yao of the Sung dynasty.) 


Diameter, 7 inches. 


359—CLAIR-DE-LUNE Tripop Disu (Sung) 


Kuang-yao of shallow form, encircled by two lines of bosses. 
I Interior covered with a clair-de-lune glaze of light bluish-green 
i| hue, the rim and exterior with an aubergine glaze qualified with 
delicate grayish modulations. Bottom glazed in a grayish- 
celadon tone, with iron-rust patches, and carrying an incised 
mark, the numeral 7. (Repaired.) Imperial Sung ware of the 
Chiin type. 


Hi | Diameter, 7%, inches. 


360—Cuair-DE-LUNE Tripop Bown (Sung) 


Circular and shallow, the feet of inverted pyramidal form; ex- 
terior encircled by two lines of studs or bosses, one beneath the 
curve of the body, the other under the rim. Coated with a bril- 
liant clair-de-lune glaze of greenish-white moonlight hue, flowing 
in places thin and again in copious waves. Interior glazed sim- 
larly. Kuang-yao of Chiin type. Sung Imperial ware. (Re- 
paired.) On the bottom the numeral 6, which appears to have 


been a later addition. 
Diameter, 8% inches. 


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361—Sune Porrery Trieop CEnsER 


In the form of three massive coalescent elephant heads, the trunks 
extended to the ground and turning outward, forming the feet. 
Y The hollow heads which form the jar are surmounted by a short 
. eylindrical neck and thick flanged lip, on whose broad rim are 
= two Fu-lions couchant, modeled in high relief. Has carved teak- 

wood cover with jade finial. 
Height, 10 inches. 

$862—Tvravoisrk Gatiipor (Yuan) 


With broad shoulder and narrow flanged foot. Covered with a 
thin glaze of turquoise-blue, through which runs everywhere a 
minute crackle. Interior of the short neck glazed in a gold and 
brown lacquer effect. (Lip and foot show slight repair.) 


Height, 1034 inches. 
363—Ciair-DE-LUNE Tripop Disu (Sung) 


Hexafoliate, bulbous, shallow body, with wide circular mouth and 
flat, everted hexafoil lip with molded rim. Interior covered with 
a clair-de-lune glaze of bluish-green and pale “moonlight-white” 
tone, the broad lip and plain exterior of the body and feet with 
a rich aubergine glaze, mottled and of lustrous quality. Bot- 
tom, glazed’ a yellowish-brown, bears an incised mark, the nu- 
meral 3. JKuang-yao of Chiin type. Imperial Sung ware. 
( Repaired.) 

Diameter, 934 inches. 


364—Roryat Brive Ovorw Jar (Sung) 


With short cylindrical lip. Sung pottery, covered with a va- 
riously flowing glaze of rich purplish-blues, shading into lapis 
and deep-cobalt quality, with crackle. 

Height, 7, inches. 


365—Comranion Docs Fu 1n Sune Porrery 


Seated on their haunches on quadrilateral plinths supported by 
quadrangular pedestal bases with curvilinear feet. Both dogs 
with open mouths, rolling tongues, and spreading tails upraised 
in loop curves; one with his right forepaw resting on the brocaded ~ 
ball, the other with left forepaw holding down a cub Fu, which, 

rolling on its back, plays with the ponderous paw above it. Mod- 

eled with remarkable skill and proportion, with the coats repre- 
sented by consecutive waved and concentric lines deeply incised in 
the paste. The whole glazed in malachite-green, so treated among 
the striations defining the pelts as to suggest there a tawny hue, 
elsewhere on the bodies and all about the plinths and pedestals 
revealing mottled malachite tones of rare beauty and quality. 
Marked with interesting revelations of the effect of time. 


Respective heights, 9 inches; length, 6144 and 6%, inches. 


366—Sune Porrery STATUETTE oF Kvuan-yin, CHINESE GODDESS OF 


Mercy 


Modeled in bold lines, the face with delicate refinement of fem- 
inine beauty; in augustly draped robes, and seated with one foot 
raised on a projecting rock, a hand on the elevated knee, and — 
holding on her other knee the infant Buddha. Covered with a 
thick, fluent glaze of creamy tone—spoken of as Sung white— 
displaying a fine crackle in brown lines over various parts of the 


surface. 
Height, 151%, inches. 


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367—Kuan-yin EntHRoNED (Early Ming or Yuan Pottery) 


The Chinese goddess of mercy seated cross-legged on a rock base 
or throne. She wears the high headdress and cowl and the cus- 
tomary loose robes, with an ornate Buddhistic necklace seen 
against her bared breast. Her gilded hands are clasped in her 
lap and her head is inclined in meditation. The features and 
breast were originally painted and gilded, and retain portions of 
the pigment and the gold. The robes are in thick enamel colors 
of malachite, turquoise and aubergine, with crackled glaze, and 
the. rockery of the base is in aubergine and malachite. 


Height (with base), 211% inches. 


368—Rare Lares Conicat Sune Potrery Jar (Sung) 


With high, broad, slowly sloping shoulder, the circular body con- 
tracting sharply below and finishing as an inverted truncated cone. 
Covered throughout both exterior and interior surfaces, includ- 
ing the short vertical lip, with a thick lavender-gray glaze having 
a bold crackle, the glaze revealing in places notes of mauve, and 
displaying on the shoulder three equidistant broad patches of 
mottled green with gray-white, flowing, cloud-like outlines. This 
green presentation is most unusual, such glazes in the Sung pot- 
tery commonly exhibiting purple, but very rarely green. Has 
teakwood stand, carved as.an expired lotus flower, studded with 
movable boxwood seeds. 


Height, 11144 inches (with stand, 15 inches); diameter, 12%, inches. 


(Illustrated) 


| 369—Tatt Prear-sHarpep CrackLte Vase (Ming) 


A The body gracefully expanding from a circular foot, tapering 
| gently to a full neck and rceurving to the flange-lip with round- 
| ing rim. Rudimentary animal-head-and-ring handles modeled in 
| . the paste. Stone pottery coated with a glaze of light café-au- 
| lait tone, which extends over the lip and beneath the foot and 


is crackled throughout. 
Height, 18% inches. 


370—Larce Buiur anp Wurte Fish Bowui (Chia Ching) 


Heavy stoneware, glazed in white, with an all-round decora- 
tion of two five-clawed dragons pursuing the flaming jewel amidst 
fire-scrolls, in deep Mussulman blue. On the rim the six-char- 


acter mark of Chia Ching. 
| Height, 15 inches; diameter, 2814, inches. 


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371—Mine Porcerain Biue anp Wurre Fish Bow1 (Wan-li) 


Inverted-cone shape, with slightly ovoidal sides and thickened 
lip. Adorned with carp and long-nosed ‘fish, lotus plants, de- 
tached blossoms and sea-waves, in the rich Mohammedan blue 
which has vanished from the ceramic art of the world. In- 
scribed on the lip: T’a-Ming Wan-li nien-chih (Made in the 
reign of Wan-li of the great Ming dynasty). 


Height, 17 inches (with stand, 3634 inches) ; diameter, 201% inches. 


372—Larce Porrery Pranr Jar (Yuan) 


Ovoidal contour, much resembling a huge cone standing on its 
broadly truncated end, with the upper end folded slightly inward 
and finishing with a low molded round lip. Two rudimentary 
= handles of lon-heads with large rings, molded in relief in the 
FE paste. Covered uniformly with a rich creamy glaze of grayish 
tinge, crackled and exhibiting a metallic luster. 


_ Height, 16 inches (with stand, 40 inches); diameter, 30 inches. 
(Illustrated) 


373—Larce Porrery Pranr Jar (Yuan) 


> Circular, expanding slowly from the base, with a slightly bulbous 
shoulder recurving abruptly in a short, thick, everted flat lip. 
Encircled by two rings of prominent bosses and carrying four 
rudimentary or ornamental handles in the form of Fu-lion heads 
modeled in high relief. Covered throughout its exterior sur- 
face with a thick, unctuous glaze of rich turquoise showing 
many mottlings and variations of hue. Interior glazed in 


yellow. 
~ Height, 1714 inches (with stand, 414, inches) ; diameter, 3034 inches. 


374—Masestic Porrery Pranr Jar (Yuan) 


Circular, with ovoid contour and thickened lip. The body coated 
with a fluent glaze of rich, deep indigo-blue, and the rim with a 
mottled aubergine glaze in “waterfall” effect. Modeled in relief 
in the paste are lotus plants with buds and blossoms, and re- 
vealing the seed-pods, and over them birds and butterflies are 
seen, the reliefs glazed in turquoise-blue, green, white, mauve and 
yellow. Base encircled by a molded band of waves in aquamarine 
tint. Interior glazed in turquoise-blue. 


Height, 26 inches (with stand, 52 inches); diameter, 39 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


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‘THIRD AND LAST AFTERNOON’S SALE 


SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1914 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK 


WHICH INCLUDES CATALOGUE NOS. 376 TO 519 


3 OLD CHINESE VELVETS AND SUMPTUOUS 
i BROCADES 


376—TIwo Sitx VeLver Cuarr CusHions 


Silk velvet of old-golden hue, cut and brocaded with a floral 
Y scroll pattern of chrysanthemum flowers and leaves in delicate 
tones of pink, blue and silver-gray. Eighteenth century. 


ce 20 inches square. 


377—Eicut Sirk VELVET AND Gotp BrocapE CHaiRr Marts 


: Decoration, two archaic dragons in gold in the center on a ground 
: of golden-pink velvet ; the border with floral scroll in gold within 
a ground of bright green velvet. Highteenth century. 


Length, 20% inches; width, 144, inches. 


378—Two Sirk VELVET AND GOLD SQuARE Taste Marts 


Golden-pink velvet field, brilliant with profuse lotus scrolls within 
an architectural border interrupted by medallions and scrolls, all 
in gold thread; outer Greek-fret border in gold on blue-green 


velvet ground. Eighteenth century. 
: 24 inches square. 


379—Two Sirk Vetver anpD GoLp SavuaRE Taste Marts 


Similar to the foregoing. Eighteenth century. 


22 inches square. 


380—Two Sink VELVET AND Gotp TaBLEe Covers 


Fields of golden-pink velvet ornate with peony medallions and 
sprays in gold thread; borders of scrolls and foliations in velvet 
with a pale-green sheen, on a ground of gold thread. Eighteenth 


century. ; 
Length, 34 inches; width, 33 inches. 


381—ImrERiAL Brocape Taste Cover 


Central medallion of cloud-forms enclosing a five-clawed dragon 


woven in gold thread, on a field of conventional foliated medal- 
lions in lattice arrangement, with alternating enclosures of flying 
storks. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 371 inches; width, 35 inches. \: ‘ 


382—GoLDEN-BROWN SitkK Brocape Entrance Hancine 


Decorated with four-clawed dragons, kylins, waves of the sea, 
clouds and symbols, in blue, green and other colors and silver 


thread. Eighteenth century. 
Height, 32 inches; width, 37 inches. 


383—Wrtne-cotor Sirk Vetvet Brocaprt Entrance Hancine 


Decoration in gold thread of dragons, kylins, waves, clouds and 


symbols. Eighteenth century. 
Height, 32 inches; width, 391, inches. 


384—SiLtk VetvetT Wart Hancine 


Ornate decoration of lotus blossoms and scroll in pale shimmering 
green on a brilliant red ground, its hue changing with the direc- 
tion of the light. Eighteenth century. 


Height, 36 inches; width, 41 inches. — 


385—Fovur Sirk Brocapr Waui Hanernes (Ch’ien-lung) 


Light, gray-green ground; adorned with landscapes, pagodas, 
cows, goats, deer and horses, flowers, and motives from the 
“Hundred Antiques,” in various tones of green, yellow, brown, 
orange-pink and red. 

Length, 45 inches; width, 13 inches. 


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386—Four Pieces Curnese Sirk anp Gop Brocapne (Ch’ien-lung) 


On a ground of brilliant Imperial yellow through which gold 
threads run in profusion, successive horizontal bands of car- 
touches are woven, with blue and green predominant in their 
coloring. In a central medallion is a five-clawed dragon, and 
a scrolled companion appears at each of the corners of the fabric. 


Height, 41 inches; length, 53 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


387—Cuinese Cut-veELveT Watt Hancine (Ch’ien-lung) 


From an ancient Temple of Agriculture. Soft pink, with a golden 
iridescence, the ornamentation picturing the eight Taoist im- 
mortals, the god of longevity and others, attending on the Em- 
peror, who appears in the center, besides clouds, storks, bats, 
deer and many symbols, and the name of the agricultural college. 
Has a deep green fringe with spangles. 


Length, 18 feet 3 inches; depth, 24% inches (with fringe, 36 inches). 


388—CuineEsE Cur-ve.ver Watt-Hancine (Ch’ien-lung) 


Congruous with the last and with the same colors and borders, 
and from the same school of agriculture, the name of which 
appears on both pieces. The major decoration of this piece 
depicts Fu-lions, filleted wheels and flame scrolls, and a frieze 


pictures bucolic landscapes. 
Length, 6 feet 5 inches; depth, 34 inches. 


389—Two Sirk VELVET AND Gotp Watt HAncInes 


Golden-brown field of silk velvet ornamented with four-clawed 
dragons, the endless knot, Dogs Fu with the brocaded ball, and 
bats, emblems of happiness, surrounding the ‘“double-joy” sym- 
bol of two persons made happy, all in gold thread. Border of 
conventional scrolls and medallions in gold thread embraced 
within a blue-green velvet ground. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 5 inches; width, 20 inches. 


390—Gotpex Rose Sirk VetvetT Watt Hancine 


With decoration, cut in the velvet and woven in gold thread, of 
lions and the brocaded ball, and other symbols. Eighteenth 


century. 
Height, 23%, inches; width, 7 feet. 


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391—S1tx VELVET And Gotp Wart Haneine 


Golden-pink field of silk velvet resplendent with two phenixes a 
and full-blown peonies in gold thread. Border of poppy-scroll — : 


in gold within a bright green velvet ground. Eighteenth century. 


Height, 2334 inches; width, 7 feet 101% inches. 


392—-Si_Lk VELVET AND Gotp Watt Haneine 


Woven in transverse section or oblong mats in a series of eight, — 
each with a peony medallion and sprays in gold on a golden- 
brown velvet ground, bordered by floral scrolls. worked in the 
soft velvet pile which here is a shimmering pale blue-green, over 
a ground of gold thread. Eighteenth century. 


| Length, 8 feet 414 inches; width, 2 feet. 


$93—LarcE SILK VELVET Wart Hancine 


Oblong field almost iridescent in the shimmer of the orange, 
. brown, pinkish and flame-hued velvet and the varied threads in 
bh which the ornament is woven, the ornamentation including two 
pheenixes in the form of a central medallion, a pheenix at each 
| corner, peonies, melons, leaves and scrolls. Wide border of silver- 
blue, orange-pink and white bats flying among silver-white cloud 
scrolls, all in the thread, on a Nile-green silk velvet ground. 


Eighteenth century. 
Length, 9 feet 714 inches; width, 5 feet 91% inches. 


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394—Larce Empromerep Cuinese Wari Haneine (Chien-lung) 


With boundless wishes of longevity and happiness. On a salmon- 
pink ground brilliant as flame, in silk of a fine sheen, a decora- 
tion of regal affluence is embroidered in rich blue, white, gray, 
green, black and other silks, and made resplendent with an abun- 
dance of gold. The god of longevity, Shou-lao, appears offer- 
ing a peach of longevity to one of two sages who attend him on 
either hand, and above and all about are blossoms and clusters of 
the fabled fruit of long life, together with bats—symbols of 
happiness—flying among scrolling clouds. At the top of the 
hanging are sages studying a painting of the yang-yim symbol. 


Height, 10 feet 2 inches; width, 7 feet 11 inches. 


The following rich brocades of silk velvet and gold-colored silk thread form a 
- eomplete room decoration brought by a bride to the palace of her husband. 

All are of a warm, glowing, salmon-pink velvet, ornamented in medallions, scrolls, 
sprays and foliations of a blossoming-peony design in the gold-colored woven threads, 
with a border of the same threads embracing in some a continuous swastika fret and in 
others a conventional scroll of the Indian lotus in light green silk velvet, the whole 
exhibiting a lustrous sheen. Eighteenth century. 


395—Ricu Brocapves oF SILK VELVET AND GOLD-COLORED SILK 


(A) Two Enrrance Haneines. These have in addition to the 
ornamentation above mentioned several repetitions of the ‘“‘double- 
joy” symbol, or emblem of connubial bliss—two persons made 


happy, or “twice glad.” 
Height, 33°, inches; breadth, 351% inches. 


(B). Fight CHarr Covers. 
Length, 19 inches; width, 14 inches. 


(C) Four CHarr Covers. 
: Length, 19 inches; width, 15 inches. 


(D) Two Pritiows. 
Length, 23 inches; breadth, 10 inches; depth, 11 inches. 


(E) Eight Wart Hanernes. 
Length, 62 inches; width, 19 inches. 


(F) Four Wari Hanernes. 
Length, 64 inches (one, 60 inches); width, 19 inches. 


(G) Four Taste Mats. 


23 inches square. 


(H) Two Tasie Covers. 


Length, 34 inches; width, 32 inches. 


The following Chinese paintings are of the Ch’ien-lung period, and are in Euro- 
pean carved-wood frames imported by the Chinese at the time. (A few are in Chinese 
frames of teakwood.) The painting is on the under-side of glass. Some of it is dis- 
tinctly Chinese in type, character, workmanship. Some is evidently the production 
of European artists, conforming more or less to Chinese canons, as European painters 
in China were compelled by the Emperor to do, even though they had endeavored earlier . 
to introduce Western methods and ideas in the painting art. Some of the work is that ; 
of Chinese students of European masters, and in more than one of the paintings will 
be noted the influence of European landscape and genre painting, notably that of the 
Dutch school, an inheritance, doubtless, from the days of K’ang-hsi, when the Chinese — 
ports were open and engaged in commerce with the Occident. The sizes given 
exterior frame measurements. eo 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


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396—Porrrair or a Youne Girt—Seated 


Height, 1334, inches; width, 1114 inches 


Three-quarter length portrait of a young girl, seated and — 
turned slightly to the right, her face almost full-front and — 
large eyes looking directly at the spectator. She wears a low- — 
neck, ruffled white gown with over-drapery of deep blue em- — 
broidered in gold, and holds on her lap an odd-looking pet — 
animal. A painting marked clearly by the European influence. — 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


397—F LOWERS 
og ae —- Height, 17 inches; width, 11 inches 


(A table screen) 


A. white- -blossoming green shrub sends up gracefully bending 
stems from the foot of blue rocks on a green knoll. Above 
them a butterfly hovers in their fragrance. Mirror background; 
_ the opposite side also a mirror. 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


398—GoLDEN LANDSCAPE 


Height, 15 inches; length, 1834 inches 


(A table screen) 


In a wooded retreat among mountains, trees and rocks golden 
against a dark sky, are numerous pavilions in red, blue and 
white, and in the foreground is a body of blue water. ‘Three 
sages in embroidered robes, one walking, one seated and one 
standing, are severally contemplating nature from rock shelves 
and steps. On the opposite side is a mirror. 


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CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


399—CHINESE GIRLS 


Height, 211% inches; width, 1514 inches 


On a dais in a room with gray walls two small dark shaiveas ; 
Chinese girls are seated beside a table, looking at the spec- 


broidered with floral sprays. She rests one elbow on the low 
table and in her other hand bolds a long slender tobacco pipe : 
which she has been smoking. Her companion, in dark and — 4 
light blue and pink, poises her head over one shoulder and ’ 

holds her left little finger at her chin. a 


(Illustrated) 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


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Height, 211% inches; width, 1544 inches a 


Two figures are seated on a dais, facing the spectator, at either 
side of a low “checker-board” table, playing the game of “Go.” 
One wears a pale blue-figured robe, the other a robe of soft 
gray trimmed in green with gold embroidering. On.the tableis 
a vase with a sprig from a flowering tree. Gray background 
with a gold-embroidered green-blue hanging draped above and 
at one side. a 


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CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


401—TuHE Pink Lapy 
Height, 18 inches; width, 14 inches 1 
Three-quarter length portrait of a lovely Celestial maiden 


wearing a rich robe of pink damask, at her dressing table at 
the completion of her elaborate toilette. In one hand, raised 


_ toward her shoulder, she holds a hand-mirror, but evidently 
_ satisfied with what it has already told her she looks out in 
the direction of the spectator. She has a broad forehead and 


oval face, and a cupid’s-bow mouth. Her black hair is decked 
with ornaments, and her robe, which is lined in blue, is em- 


__ bellished with gold. Her dress beneath it is pale-green, lightly 
trimmed with black. 


(Illustrated) 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


402—Lapy READING 


Height, 18 inches; width, 14 inches 


A young lady with thoughtful, expressive face, is portrayed 
at three-quarter length, holding in her hand an open Chinese 
scroll. She has paused in her reading and looks up at the 
observer with deep, quiet eyes. Her flowing, pale-green robes 
are embellished with foliar scrolls, and rich trimmings and 
linings of scarlet and yellow, ornamented in gold and black. 
She is seen against a blue background. 


(Illustrated ) 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 
403—A FreNcH Lapy 
Height, 2214, inches; width, 1614 inches 
Copy of a French painting of the late eighteenth century. One 


of the typical figures of the time, a round-faced, pink-cheeked 
young lady in a high-waisted and low-necked gown, is repre- 


sented at three-quarter length, standing, and painted in an 


oval. Her light hair is bound by a blue ribbon, she wears 
a pearl-gray waist and deep écru skirt girdled in blue, holds 
sprays of blossoms in her hands and looks directly at the ob- 
server. In the spandrels about the oval are Chinese floral 


forms. 
(Illustrated) 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


404—AN ANCIENT STORY 


Height, 23 inches; width, 16 inches 


A representation in many brilliant colors of a tale from the 
rich treasury of Celestial myth and romance. In. the im- 
mediate foreground at the left, a bright-faced boy in poly- 
chromatic robes stands in the hollow trunk of a dead tree, 
floating on deep blue waves and gazing heavenward. A little 
back on the right a beautiful moon-faced maiden, in costume 
even more gorgeous than his, has descended on a cloud which 
hangs low over the sea. She holds up in one hand a fly-whisk, 
and in graceful serenity looks from deep eyes in the direction 
of the spectator. Background of conventional landscape. 
Against the sky is a long calligraphic inscription, reciting the 
love story pictured. 


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405—Lapy PLAYING THE SHO-FLUTE 


Height, 2034 inches; width, 151% inches 


A young lady, seated, leans in graceful curves upon a table at 
her side, resting her elbows on it and with both hands holding 
up to her small mouth the musical reed instrument which the — 
Japanese name the Sho-flute—one of the instruments used in 
Shinto to represent the sounds of paradise. She is seen at 
three-quarter length and wears a gown of rich velvet-black, 
over blue, with flowing lace sleeves. At a pause in her playing 
she looks directly at her observer. 


(Illustrated) 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


406—GOLD-FISH 


Height, 2214, inches; width, 1614 inches 


Standing at the side of a table and seen at half-length is a 
placid and sweet-faced young mother, attending her small boy, 
who is watching gold-fish swimming in a transparent jar. ‘The 
infant is nude save for the gamezutachi, which is orange-pink, 
embroidered with sprays and floral medallions, and he is sitting 
on the table. His mother, who is turned slightly to the left, 
her head gently inclined, wears a beautifully embroidered man- 
darin coat, light blue, with a narrow pink collar, and deep coral- 
red cuffs on the flowing sleeves. Sky-blue background. 


(Illustrated) 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


407—ARCHERY IN WINTER 


Height, 27 inches; length, 33% inches 


In a cold green foreground a family of some consequence is 
assembled at the foot of some leafless trees—two men, three 
women and some boys, besides other persons—engaged in the 
ceremonial sport of arrow-shooting. Back of them in the snow 
are more bowmen, on horseback, shooting as they run. The 
people are variously garbed in winter robes of blue, red, white 
or other color, gold-embroidered. The mountainous back- 
ground is snow-covered, under a dark winter cloud, and toward 
the right is seen a church clearly taken from a European paint- 
ing, as the architecture tells. 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


408—A GARDEN Party 


(Black and White) 


Height, 221% inches; length, 301 inches 


Undoubtedly a reproduction or copy of a Dutch picture, by 
a Chinese artist. <A characteristic landscape composition of the 
Dutch school, with a broad river winding through it, and 
gabled buildings on either bank, the windows of the one on the 
right with the small “Dutch panes.” In front of this build- 
ing, in the foreground, are men, women and children in Kuro- 
pean dress and with a Celestial version of European features. 
Two, seated on a garden bench, hold wine glasses, and a child 
is coming up offering a rose. Others stand about in various 
attitudes and near the water a little girl is playing with a 
frolicking dog. 
(Illustrated) 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


409—Taorst PARADISE 


Height, 221% inches; length, 301% inches 


Immortals of the Taoist cult are seated in a riverside garden 
composing poems, and playing the game of “Go,” and stand- 
ing in study of an open scroll on which the yang-yin symbol 
appears. They are robed in blue, white, red and brown. The 
landscape is in blue, gray, brown and pale green, and in a 
reddish-yellow pool are reflections of slender tree trunks. 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


410—A GARDEN Party OF SAGES 


Height, 221% inches; length, 301% inches 


In a landscape blue in the fore and middle ground and gray- 
green in the distance a number of sages are assembled on a 
fenced-in lawn, enjoying a repast, attendants coming from a 
pavilion with replenishment. ‘Their garden is on the border 
of a river, and at its brink another attendant is seated, setting 
afloat cups of wine in observance of an ancient and famous 
ceremony. The figures are robed in scarlet, blue and brown. 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


411—LapigEs IN “THE GARDEN OF BLOOMING FLOWERS” 


Height, 221% inches; length, 301% inches 


At the left a corner of a summer-house comes into view in a 
wooded and rocky landscape or natural garden, two ladies 
approaching on the veranda and another standing on the 
ground at the foot of the steps. Here on a level patch in the 
foreground are also other figures, one a boy mounted on a 
spotted stag. Through the landscape courses a placid river, 
and on the farther shore are seen some gray buildings. The 
whole landscape is done in blue, green and yellowish-brown. 
Rose-tinted clouds float in a blue sky. In a leaf on the pavilion 
is inscribed the name of the garden. 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


41 2—W ARRIORS 


Height, 21 inches; length, 28 inches 


Great men of martial prowess are seen seated and standing 
within a portico, an aged sage and attendants appearing before 
them with baskets of fruit. The robes of all—red, blue, yellow, 
gray, green and brown—are richly brocaded in gold and color. 
In all there are eight figures, in various expressive attitudes. 
In the background a conventional landscape. 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


413—W aRRIORS 
(A pendant to the preceding) 


Height, 21 inches; length, 28 inches 


Mighty men of war now in the garb of peace are assembled to 
the number of seven on a terrace, apparently recounting and 


enacting ancient exploits. One wearing two long plumes in- 


his headdress is seated back of a table, a companion sitting at 
one end of it and another leaning on the opposite end. An 
elderly man has thrown himself to the floor in front of it in 
the attitude of telling or representing something, while three 
others are walking up. All wear ornate robes. Conventional 
landscape background. 


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CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


414—LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES 
(Black and White) 


Height, 22% inches; length, 301% inches 


The endeavor of a Chinese artist to produce a European pic- 
ture. In a landscape bordering a river, with mountains in 
the background, several ladies and children are gathered on a 
flat clearing with trees and brush enclosing it—the corner of 
a building coming into the picture on the right—watching some 
white kids about a feeding-trough. On the river sailing vessels 
are seen. 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


415—LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES IN A GARDEN 
(Black and White) 


| Height, 221% inches; length, 301% inches 


_ A Celestial copy or adaptation of a Dutch painting. In the 


foreground young women in Dutch frocks are standing and 
seated about a tree, watching some children at play, at the right 
a young man and woman apparently “treading a measure.” 
Their garden is just outside an arched gateway, and at the edge 
of a wandering river with castles on both banks among high 
hills, all the buildings with high gables. On the river are sev- 
eral sail. 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


416—A PAGEANT 


Height, 2634 inches; length, 36°4 inches 


An enormous float on decorated wheels with scalloped rims, 
the front in the form of a conventional phoenix head, displays 
numerous figures and theatrical scenery in gaudy coloring. 
Four figures are represented in front as drawing the float by 
cords, and beside it walk several young men and women. Con- 
ventional landscape background visible at the right. 


_assist them with its progress. Four men also walk beside it, 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


417—A PAGEANT 


(A pendant to the preceding picture) SS 3 | 


Height, 2634 inches; length, 3634 inches 


In this painting the float with decorative wheels has a grotesque | 3 
animal as figure-head, and is drawn by four young women, in | 
front, while three others walking alongside midway of the float — 


their hands in different gestures. On the float, amidst the- oi 


atrical scenery, various actors are represented, and young ~ 
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CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 


418—StiLL LireE—F'Lowers 
(Large panel in carved teakwood frame—panel cracked) 
Height, 49 inches; width, 311% inches 
A. cloisonné enamel jar in characteristic coloring and design, 
resting on a small stand of cherry-colored lacquer, contains a — 
dwarf tree-peony with a profusion of blossoms, the leaves yel- 


low, the blossoms a warm pink. Rich and elaborate background 
of floral brocade in two shades of dark blue (the whole painted). 


CHINESE PAINTING ON GLASS 
419—Stiru Lire—F Lowers 


A companion to the preceding, with the same design of peonies — 
and accessories. 


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BIRDCAGES, LACQUERS, AND OTHER OBJECTS OF UTILITY AND 
EMBELLISHMENT 


420—Two Brown Laceuer Boxes (Ming) 


Oblong, with metal mountings. Inlaid with mother-of-pearl and 
soapstone set in low relief, and further adorned with raised 
lacquer-work in different colors, the decoration including the 
tree-peony and magnolia, rockery, birds perched on branches and 
flying insects. 

Length, 15%, inches. 


421—Two Manovarin Har Boxes (Ch’ien-lung) 


Deep cylindrical form, in brown, vermilion and _ olive-green 
lacquer, with ornamentation in gold outline and veining of lotus 
and lilies, foliar-scrolls and bat emblems of happiness. 


Height, 1234 inches; diameter, 1514 inches. 


4299 _Patr ANTIQUE CHINESE SQuARE LANTERNS 


Lacquer frames with carved dragon corners, painted in gold with 
archaic dragon-scrolls, and ornamented with carved teakwood 
parapets; the glass sides painted with graceful Chinese Court 
ladies in different attitudes and colors. The frames are of the 
‘Ch’ien-lung period; the glass panel paintings are by modern 
Chinese artists. Panels faced with delicate Chinese silk. 


Height, 23 inches; diameter, 17 inches. 


423—Pain ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE LANTERNS 


Similar to the preceding, but without the teakwood parapets, 
and somewhat smaller. As with the foregoing the frames are 
Ch’ien-lung, the glass-paintings modern; panels backed by thin 
Chinese silk. 

Height, 21 inches; diameter, 15°, inches. 


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424—CHInESE TorRTOISE-SHELL BiIRDCAGE 


Round, with black lacquer base, on ivory feet and with ivory 
mountings and fei-t’sui jade ornaments. Fitted with rustic” 
perches and cloisonné enamel seed-cup and water- nee: Eighteenth — 
| century. — 
| Height, 161, inches; diameter, 81% inches. eo: 


425—-BuFFALO-HORN CHINESE BrrRDCAGE 


Round, with brown lacquer frame, on carved ivory feet, with 

carved ivory fittings, mountings and ornaments, and water and 
feed jars of Ch’ien-lung blue and white porcelain variously 

decorated. Carved ivory ‘“‘worm-feeder” and additional orna-_ 
ment of fet-t’sui jade. Eighteenth century. 


Height, 22 inches; diameter, 141, inches. 
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426—TortToIsE-SHELL CHINESE BiIRDCAGE 


With red lacquer frame; round, on carved ivory feet, with carved 
ivory fittings and ornaments and “worm-tongs,” rustic perches, 
a jade ornament, and feed and water jars of Ch’ien-lung porcelain 
in five-color decoration. Dragon-loop for suspension. Eigh- 


teenth century. 
Height, 23 inches; diameter, 1444, inches. 


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427—Spuit-BaAmMBoo CHINESE BirDCAGE 


Octagonal, lacquered in brown, with carved ivory and porcelain 
fittings and ornaments and rustic perches. The metal mount- 
ings for hanging include in their ornamentation Dogs Fu with 
the brocaded ball, mice, jolly male figures as caryatids in the 
“lantern” above the dome of the cage, and a dragon-head as ter- 
minal for the hanging-loop. Eighteenth century. 


Height, 21 inches; diameter, 13 inches. 


428—CuiInEsE Bampoo BrirpcacEe 


Round, on carved ivory feet; formed of split bamboo painted 
with dark vermilion lacquer, the binding strips and base in black 
lacquer. Mountings and ornaments are of ivory, intricately 
carved in openwork, and include a tall central pedestal, a pair 
of long worm-tongs, or “worm feeders,” an egg-shaped worm- 
box with cover, where worms are kept, and a water-vessel in the 
form of a bamboo section, the latter delicately carved in low 
relief with immortals and symbols. In addition are three feed 
or water-vessels in blue and white porcelain of Ch’ien-lung, with 
floral decoration. Eighteenth century. 


Height, 24 inches; diameter, 14 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


429—Larcr CHINESE BuFFALO-HORN BIRDCAGE 


Cylindrical, on three tall wooden feet carved and pierced. The 
brown bamboo binders are engraved in fine spiral, and the base, 
which is of tortoise-shell, is bordered above and below with split 
bamboo engraved in a minute spiral and carved with a fine but 
bold Greek fret. The fittings and ornaments include, besides 
ivories, Ch’ien-lung porcelains in blue and white and enamel 
colors, and a water-cup carved of white jade with animals in 
relief, engraved with key-fret borders, inlaid in floral forms with 
green jade, fei-t’sua jade and coral jade, and studded with minute 


gems. Eighteenth century. 
Height, 35 inches; diameter, 15 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


430—Four Carvep Laceuer Paners (Ming) 


Dull red ground, carved with a squirming dragon among peony 
scrolls, within a swastika-grill border with interruptions of sym- 
bols, emblems and scrolls, tinted in low tones and lightly gilded. 


Height, 27 inches; width, 2114 inches. 


431—Buiacx LaceuEer Inari Tea Castner (K’ang-hsi) 


Upright quadrilateral form on four short legs; with double doors, 
and one shelf. Black lacquer, painted and inlaid with mother-of- — 
pearl and gold, with various figures in the open air in beguiling 


_ landscapes. 
Height, 221 inches. 


432—Traxwoop ARMCHAIR WITH Cane SEAT (Ch%en-lung) 


Quadrilateral legs with plain braces. Open arms and back formed 
of the scrolled archaic dragon; splat with inserted boxwood panels 
carved with a sprig of the mez and a sage and companion under a 
pine tree. 


433—Two Traxwoop Armcuatrs (Ch’ien-lung) 


Antique “bent-wood” arms and back combined in a horseshoe 
curve; broad splat, carved with figures of sages. Cane seats. 


434—Two Traxkwoop ARMCHAIRS 


Antique ‘‘bent-wood” arms and backs. 


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435—Inuaip Lacever Decorative Panet (Ming) 


Black lacquer field with brown tones, painted in vegetable colors 
with rocks, a blossoming wild plum tree, large red poppies and 
other flowers, and a bird perched on a branch of the plum tree, 
the painting embellished with brilliant mother-of-pearl inlay. 


Height, 23 inches; length, 351%, inches. 


436—ANCINET CHINESE CHAIR 


Of kiri wood (Polonia imperialis) ; obtained at Kai-feng-fu, the 
ancient capital of Honan Fu, and said to date from the Sung 
period. A simple, archaic form, often seen in ancient paintings 
as occupied by Buddhist monks. 


43'1—CanE-sEATED TEAKwoop Armcuarr (Ch’ten-lung) 


With curving back; plain legs and braces. Arms and back in 
balustrade effect, uniform and plain, with bright polish. 


re 438—Trakwoop ArmcHarr (Ch’ien-lung) 


With woven cane seat; four RE yas: legs; plain ae 
The arms, back-supports and knee-braces formed of adapta on: 
of the archaic dragon-scroll. Broad, solid splat, ornament 
the top with an openwork carving of bats among clouds 
rounding a Show character. 


439—Two Trakwoop Tasixrs (Ch’ien-lung) 


With pedestal tops and cabriole legs. Elaborately ornam 
in relief and openwork carvings of dragon and peony sc 
fishes, and the emblematic peach and bat. ‘Tops plain, with r 


rim. a ; 
Height, 31 inches; tops, 1834 inches by 131% ine 


440—Four Carvep Lacever Panets (Ming) 


Cinnabar-colored lacquer ground, carved with a presentation | 
a dragon among peony scrolls, painted with vegetable colo: 
largely of greenish note, and gilded. The border has cornes 
of dark olive with a gilt swastika-fret lattice, and foliate inter 
ruptions enclosing bat emblems and Show characters. 


Height, 28 inches; width, 24% inches. 


441—Two Lacever Trunks (Ch’ien-lung) 


Drone shape with brass mountings. Vermilion lacquer with 
“straps” or corner-bindings in black lacquer. ‘The several panels, 
on top, sides and ends, ornamented with birds flying among — es 
blossoming branches, and landscapes with ornate pavilions, and ‘ee 
figures in and about them, with other figures in boats and on oie 
horseback, painted in lacquer of many colors with golden em- — = 
bellishment. tvs 


Length, 32%, inches; height, 2634 inches; depth through, 22 nce Tem - 


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442—Carvep ARMCHAIR 


| Octagonal seat with two broad sides—at front and back—the 

| ends supported each by four legs set at the angles. Dragon- 
scroll knee-braces with a fret border; carved splat representing 
a woman playing the flute in a pavilion, and a man with a fuye 
(a form of flute) standing outside under a willow tree, and at _ 
the top an openwork panel with the pine, plum, bamboo and 
willow. 


443—Two Carvep Lacquer Paners (Ming) 


Brown or deer-color ground, with the archaic pheenix-scroll and 
floral forms surrounding a foliate medallion above and a square 
panel below, each in dark red lacquer and carved with garden 
scenes, landscapes and figures, the decoration slightly tinted and 
gilded. Lattice border in the ground color, with emblematic 
interruptions in brighter colors. 

Height, 4714 inches; width, 271, inches. 


(Illustrated) 


444—Narrow Lacquer WorsHip Tasie (Ch’ien-lung) 


On four quadrangular legs, with double end-braces. Ornamenta- 
tion in black, brown, red and green lacquer, of plum and peony 

_ sprays in foliated panels, leaf-scrolls, lattice and fret, on tops, 
sides and ends and down the legs. This shape and height char- 
acterize the tables used by the Chinese in heaven-worship, and 
are seen in the temples and the houses of the nobility. 


Height, 334, inches; length, 481% inches; width, 13 inches. 


445—Four CHINESE Lacever Panets (Ming) 


Oblong. Rich, dark red lacquer in the tone of old mahogany, 
with the varied ornaments known as the “Hundred Antiques” 
inlaid and set in low relief in a variety of substances, including 
mother-of-pearl, ivory, soapstone, crystal and glass of different 
colors—some of the glass plain and colorless, to reveal mei blos- 
soms drawn in outline behind it. 

Height, 471, inches; width, 26144 inches. 


446—Four Carvep Laceaver Panets (Ming) 


The oblong field of cinnabar-color is intricately carved with 
a representation of the four-clawed dragon rising from a tur- 
“bulent sea, and a swiftly flying phcenix in the aerial regions aloft, 
among peony and lotus scrolls in profuse assemblage, painted 
in low tones with vegetable colors and gilded; conventional 


border of lattice and emblems. 
Height, 47 inches; width, 211%, inches. 


449—Carvep Treaxwoop Rounp Taare wirh Marsrie Tor (Ch’ien- 
lung) 


Six straight legs with expanded knee and enlarged foot, with con- 
ventional carvings; circular spreader-brace in bold open scroll, 
the further ornamental work a finer pierced scroll or grill; the 
whole smoothly polished in mahogany tones. The top of gray 


and white clouded marble. 
Height, 33%, inches; diameter, 37 inches. 


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448—Carvep 'Teakwoop ARMCHAIR WITH SOLID SEAT AND EMBROID- 


ERED SILK CusHion (Ch’ien-lung) Es 
Slightly bowed legs resting on a quadrilateral strip-base, the seat 34 


i and legs suggesting the form of a Chinese table. Elaborately 
! carved open back and arms, with bats among cloud scrolls carved 
; | in relief on the splats. Additional carvings of scepter-heads 
i and several lotus scrolls in low relief. 


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449—Broap Fotpine Gate or HeartH Screen (Ming) 


In two folds, of architectural design. Black lacquer, painted 
on both faces, in various panels, with mating birds on a mei tree 
branch, larger birds, sprays of blossoms, ceremonial assemblages, 
and pavilions and figures in landscapes, done in gold lacquer and 


soft vegetable colors. 
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450—Two Carvep Lacaurer Panets (Ming) 


Ornate carving of a huge dragon emerging from ocean billows 
and sprawling amidst cloud-scrolls and fire, the monster in light 
and dark green, the flame tongues in red, and the clouds in vary- 
ing neutral hues, all painted in vegetable colors, with gilding, 
and blending in a soft harmony. Elaborate border of a lattice- 
brocade with various Shou characters, bat emblems of happiness, 


and cloud-scrolls. 
Height, 46 inches; width, 271% inches. 


451—Tworoip Brack Lacever Fire-screren (Ming) 


Each section built in architectural form, with various depressed 
and raised ornamental panels, these painted in gold lacquer on 
both faces with elaborate ceremonial scenes, horses, hares, deer, 
landscapes, sprays _and lattices; side columns surmounted by 


lotus-bud finials, colored and gilded. 


452—Two Ricuty Invarw Lacaver CaBiners (Ming) 


Brown lacquer body, with a luxuriant decoration of plum, peony 
and other trees, rocks, birds of various species, ducks, and butter- 
flies, in varicolored raised and engraved lacquers, and soapstone 
and mother-of-pearl inlaid and set in relief. Double doors; two 
interior drawers. 

Height, 5434 inches; width, 331, inches; depth, 161 inches. 


4538—Four Carvep Lacauer Panets (Ming) 


On a ground in the color of cinnabar lacquer is an elaborate 
decoration comprising the dragon rising from waves of the sea, 
the phoenix in the air above, and intricate lotus and peony scrolls, 
the whole carved, variously painted in vegetable colors, and 
gilded. Surrounded by a grill border with interruptions en- 
closing Show characters, bats and scrolls. 


Height, 461, inches; width, 241, inches. 


(Illustrated) 


454—Four Carvep Lacauer Panets (Ming) 


Boldly and vigorously carved with the figure of a single powerful 
dragon whose tortuous body spreads in coils over the greater 
part of the large oblong field, amidst full blown peonies, leaf- 
scrolls and foliations, in chocolate-brown, vermilion, dark olive 
and other hues, and gilding. Some of the panels have taken in 
places unusually soft and rich tones. Harmonious conventional 
border of grillwork, emblems and characters of felicitation. 


Length, 46%, inches; width, 2714 inches. 


455—Fourrouip Sirk BrocapE Screen (Ch’ien-lung) 


In mulberry-wood frame, each panel with a frieze of openwork 
carved and gilded. The brocade, with a salmon-pink ground, 
exhibits four-clawed dragons above sea waves, bats, pavilions, 
cloud-scrolls and various conventional geometrical devices in 
several colors. The frame is of later manufacture. 


Height, 6 feet 3 inches; width of each section, 22%, inches. 


456—Lone Traxwoop Worsuir Tasie (K’ang-hst) 


On four tall quadrangular legs; sides and ends carved with scroll 
ornamentation in low relief. Grapewood top in a single panel. 
Tables of this height and shape are held in China for the special 
purpose of heaven-worship, and are found in the temples and 
the houses of noblemen. 


Height, 34 inches; length, 50 inches; width, 191% inches. 


i] 457—Carvep Treakwoop Smoxine Sora (Ci’ien-lung) 


Oblong, with heavy bow legs on a quadrilateral strip-base raised 
on four low feet; straight back and arms, which are stepped. 
Both faces of back and arms are profusely carved in bold relief 
| with dragons, wave and cloud forms, bats, the endless knot 
and other symbols, within a raised border of incised lattice-fret 
interrupted by scrolled panels. The knees, and all sides of the 
supporting body, are adorned with cloisonné enamel mountings 
within scepter-head foliations. 


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Length, 4 feet 8 inches; depth, 3 feet; height of back, 3 feet 11 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


458—Tworotp Antiaue Laceurer Screen (Ming) 


Painted in bigness of conception and great boldness and vigor of 
execution with rock peony and magnolia trees, blooming luxuri- 
antly, birds on the wing among the branches and butterflies 
hovering over the flowers and buds. The painting is in oil colors 
of vegetable origin, exhibiting a fine, time-toned quality as well 
as bespeaking an accomplished brush. 


Height, 5 feet 10 inches; panel width, 241% inches. 


(Illustrated) 


459—Inuai Buacx Lacquer SMOKING-sorA (Ming) 


Quadrilateral, with straight back and arms, and broadly foliated 
front. All surfaces except the seat inlaid with mother-of-pearl 
in a profuse and diverse decoration. A pheasant stands on a 
rock, a crow is perched near by, smaller birds are on the wing, 
and butterflies hover over fragrant blossoms, which appear in 
sprays of great variety. 


Length, 6 feet 6 inches; depth, 3 feet Y% inch; height of back, 2 feet 9 inches. 


460—Fourroup Inia Biackx Lacever Screen (K’ang-hsi) 


The ground, of deep and brilliant black lacquer, is most in- 
tricately and profusely inlaid, in mother-of-pearl and gold, with 
extensive representations of garden scenes, pavilions, many and 
varied graceful trees and many figures, and high at the top with 
scrolled clouds. ‘The mother-of-pearl is used in minute pieces of 
varying tint, to produce the desired color-scheme, and in places 
is applied in powdered form beneath the last coat of lacquer 


for certain effects. 
Height, 461, inches; width of each panel, 1514 inches. 


461—Lone Traxwoop Worsuie Taste (Chien-lung) 


Solid, beautifully polished teakwood, of rich tone in dark ma- 
hogany coloring. ‘The ornamentation is confined to the knee- 
braces, which are carved with dragons in relief, and to two end- 
panels filling the interpedal spaces, which present in openwork 
carving spotted deer under a plum tree and storks about a pine 
tree. These tables—long, narrow and high—are used by the 
Chinese in the worship of heaven, and are seen in temples and 


noblemen’s palaces. 
Height, 35 inches; length, 76 inches; width, 18 inches. 


462—Pair Antieve Cuinest Fourotp Lacever Doa 


Each door folding in two sections or panels. 
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Height, 5 feet 2 inches; width of eac 


463—Brack LaceuER SMOKING-SOFA (Ming) 


Conventional form and size, with solid, straigl 
and four short legs. Elaborately inlaid with 
of-pearl, the seat in arboreal forms, the other 
animals, butterflies, emblems, and vases and ] 
It bears also numerous calligraphic inscriptions. 


Length, 6 feet 51%, inches; depth of seat, 3 feet; 


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465—AntievE CHInese Square Mar 


Short, soft, compact pile; loose texture. Scrolls and a broad 
conventional figure are worked in a salmon-pink verging upon 
brown, outlined by light mustard-yellow reserve in both me- 
dallion and corners. Among the several borders are strips so 
executed in blue and white as to give a “sprinkled” or “pepper 
and salt” effect, and the principal border, in colors of the main 
body, is threaded by a meander of the “sprinkle” pattern. Eigh- 
teenth century. 


2 feet 2 inches square. 


466—Pair ANTIQUE CHINESE SQuARE Marts 


Soft, compact pile. On the central square field of salmon-pink 
a Shou-character medallion in dark blue, surrounded by bat- 
emblems in cobalt, canary and brown. Border of an involved 
swastika-fret, effected with all of these colors and white. Seven- 
teenth century. _ 

Length, 2 feet 3 inches; breadth, 2 feet 3 inches. 


467—ANTIQUE CHINESE SquaRE Mat 


Compact pile with loose texture. Of golden-yellow aspect with 
rich sheen. The ground is subtly mottled by a faint and in- 
tricate design of scrolling foliations in variants of the body- 
color, all blending in the old-gold impression, while in strong 
contrast is a large quadrilateral “medallion” in pale blue, white 
and dark blue, enclosing a small round medallion of similar 
execution, the designs of these also being foliate scrolls. Eigh- 


teenth century. 
Length, 2 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


468—ANTIQUE CHINESE SquaRE Mar 


Commingled yellow, brown and tawny tones relieved by light 
and dark blue, and white, and carrying throughout, within a 
well-marked border of darker notes, coiling five-clawed dragons, 
four of them sprawling about a fifth one which occupies the 


center. 
2 feet 8 inches square. 


469—Two AntTievuE CHINESE SMALL Marts 


Gray field occupied by repetitions of the endless knot in sapphire- 
blue so deep that it looks almost black, with a medallion of one 
of the forms of the Show character surrounded by five flying 
bat-emblems of happiness. Principal border, the swastika fret. 


Eighteenth century. . 
Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


470—AnTIQUE CHINESE SquaRE Mat 


Soft, compact pile. Ground of tawny hue, on which lions in 
yellow, pale-blue and white are rampant among various scrolls 
about the filleted ball, as a central medallion, the ornamenta- 
tion occupying the entire field. Elaborate border of wave- 
pattern and scepter-heads, in white, yellow, brown and two 
shades of blue. Early seventeenth century. Delicate sheen. 


2 feet 8 inches square. 


471—AntTIquE CHINESE Mart 


Dense pile and texture. Three floral medallions in salmon-pink, 
pale yellow, sky-blue and deep, dark blue, on an oblong gray- 
white ground; harmonious border in the lighter colors on blue 
ground. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 3 feet 11 inches; width, 1 foot 2 inches. 


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472—AntTiquE CHINESE SADDLE-MAT 


Oval form; short, close pile.’ Tree-peony flowers and butterflies 
within the oval field, about a circular medallion comprehending 
five lions, large and small; all in blue, white, yellow and brown 
on a deep sapphire field. Border of symbols and scrolls in similar 
colors on like ground. Seventeenth century. 


Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


473—Two AntievE CHINESE Mats 


Short pile with loose texture and delicate sheen. Small medal- 
lions of various design, in light and dark blue, white, old-gold 
and ground-reserve, are sprinkled over a field of light fawn, 
within a narrow border of fret in white on dark-blue with white 
and pale-blue guard stripes. This is succeeded by a wide border 
_of interrupted fret in white on pinkish-fawn. Early eighteenth 


century. 
Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


474—AntieuE CHINESE Mat 


Short, compact pile and loose texture. Fawn-colored field with 
a medallion of rocks and blossoming trees in orange-brown, old- 
gold, light and dark blue, other tree-groups omitting the old- 
gold occurring between the medallion and angular spandrels en- 
closing the swastika. Border of swastika-fret with medallic in- 
terruptions. Eighteenth century 


Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


475—Rare ANTIQUE CHINESE Rounp Mar 


Soft pile and loose texture. Probably made for some special — 
purpose, round mats being unusual among Celestial fabrics. The 
circular field presents an agreeable confusion of subdued color, ig 
in subtly woven, restricted designs worked into the general and _ 
more pronounced display of tree branches with large blossoms, — 
scrolling sprays and ornaments. A narrow border of light and ~ 
dark blue with white dots is embraced within a wider one of bold 
leaf and blossom motive. Early eighteenth century. 3 


Diameter, 2 feet 10 inches. 


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476—ANTIQUE CHINESE Mat 


Soft pile and loose texture. Brilliant mustard-yellow oblong 
field, defined by a band carrying a geometrical pattern in two 
shades of blue and white. From alternate corners of the 
field a tree in cobalt and sapphire-blue springs, the branches 
swinging across the field midway and dividing it. In each sec- 
tion a flying stork appears above a spotted stag which looks up 
at it—both emblems of longevity—also in cobalt and sapphire, 
with the addition of white. Border of the same yellow ground- 
color, pervaded by a composite meander and swastika-fret pat-> 
tern in a subtle fawn tone. Eighteenth century. . 


Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


(Illustrated) 


477—AnTIQUE CHINESE Mat 


Tawny-pink field strewn with peony sprays in white, dark and 
light blue and pale golden-yellow, between fretted spandrels and 
a foliar medallion of yellow, white and the ground-color reserve, 
into which is worked an extreme conventionalization of the archaic 
dragon-scroll in the two shades of blue with white. Conventional 
borders in blue and white and ground-reserve, with a meander in 
light golden-yellow. Early eighteenth century. 


Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 


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478—AnTIQUE CHINESE SavarE Mat 


Five-clawed dragons in brilliant yellow overspread a glowing 
sapphire ground, four dragons in the corners approaching a large 
central one whose body encircles the flaming jewel. On all sides 
the conventional wave border at intervals invades the field. The 
forms of the monsters are picked out in light-blue, orange-pink 

-and white, and the border comprises the colors of the general 
scheme. Seventeenth century. 


Length, 3 feet 5 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches. 


479—AntTIQUE CHINESE Mat 


Short pile with velvety surface; delicate fawn and greyhound 
hues for the dominant notes, the oblong field carrying conven- 
tional trees springing from the directions of the opposite ends, 
and a central medallion evolved from scrolled tree-forms. Nar- 
row border of the ground-colors with a meander in light-blue, 
followed by a broader border of freely conventionalized tree or 
plant scrolls. Seventeenth century. 

Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


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480—ANTIQUE CHINESE Rue 


Short, close pile; overcast sides and fringe ends. Field of sap- 


phire luster, strewn with small medallions in salmon-pink and 
pale yellow-white, encompassing a medallion ,of conventional 
archaic dragon-scroll in the same colors. Sides without borders; 


multicolored end-borders disclosing the latch-hook and other | 


Western Asiatic suggestions. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet. 


481—AntTIqauE CHINESE Ruc 


Short, close pile; loose texture. Tawny-salmon oblong field, 


without corner ornament, sprinkled with sundry small medal- 


hons of varied design and color, about a large stork medallion 
in white, sapphire and sky-blue. Conventional borders. Early 


eighteenth century. 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


482—AnTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 


Soft pile and loose texture. Foliar medallions, sprays and but- 
terfly-scrolls in yellow, white, brown and blue on a dark-sapphire 
field. Flower-scroll border in light and dark blue, white and 
light yellow, on an orange-brown ground. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 4 feet 7 inches; breadth, 2 feet 3 inches. 


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483—ANTIQUE CHINESE RuG 


Compact pile, close texture. Floral and angular scroll corners 
in bright yellows on dark blue; rich sapphire-blue field overspread 
by a fine lattice in lighter blue, the interstices enclosing a con- 
ventional device in the same light-blue and white, and the lattice 
interrupted by sprays, butterflies and a medallion, in the yellows 
of the corner designs. Bright border with scrolls and symbols. 
Eighteenth century. 


Length, 5 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet 5 inches. 


484—AnTI@euE CHINESE SADDLE-MAT 


In the shape of the silkworm’s cocoon. Short, soft, close pile, 
with a sheen delicate in tone and rich in quality. Conven- 
tionalized tree-blossoms in black, canary, fawn and blue, on a 

~ gray or light-fawn ground; surrounded by narrow fret and broad 
scroll borders. Seventeenth century. 


Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


485—AntiquE CHINESE Rue 
Short pile and loose texture. Oblong field of salmon-pink with 
a lattice-fret in lighter tone, spread with varied medallions in 
light yellow, light and dark blue, and white. Chief border a blue 
swastika-fret on light yellow ground. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 5 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 7 inches. 


486—ANnTIQUE CHINESE Mat 


Gray-white field, with archaic dragon-scroll corners in two shade 
of blue, the field strewn with sprays and butterflies, in the two 
blues and light brown and yellow, about a floral medallion in the 
same colors. Dot, T-fret and flower-scroll borders. Eighteenth : 
century. 

Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch, 1 


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487—ANTIQUE CHINESE Rue 4 
Compact pile, with loose texture. Field a quasi- -salmon pink 
overborne by tawny hue, carrying floral and geometrical orna- 
ment in a central tedallisn and corners, with intermediate group- 
ings of blossoming dwarfed trees in tubs, all in sapphire and pale 
sky-blue, with white. Fret and floral borders. Early eighteenth — 


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Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches. 7 


488—AnTIQUE CHINESE Rue 


A brown field of dark café-au-lait note is spread with conventional — a 
designs in white, yellow and two shades of blue, and has in the — 
center a medallion presenting in the same colors.a kylin and — 
pheenix and the endless knot. Bordered by a fret in salmon-pink 
| on blue, and a further border of scrolling devices in blues, white __ 
and yellow on a ground-color the same as the field’s. Eighteenth 


century. ‘3 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 10 inches. — a 


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489—AntieuE CuHiInEsE Lone Mat 


Short pile and loose texture. Salmon-pink field, with the archaic 
dragon-scroll in light and dark blue at the corners; three large 
flower medallions among the ‘Hundred Antiques” in bright yel- 
low, brown, white and two shades of blue. Scroll border in 
harmony. Eighteenth century. | 


Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


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490—Antiaur Cuinese Mat 


Soft, deep, compact pile. Oblong field of deer-skin ground, in 
which are worked seven horses, willow and other trees, in one of 
which two birds perch, mountains and moss-spotted rocks, all in 
cobalt and-sapphire-blue, salmon-pink, white, pale-yellow and 
different shades of brown; an unusual and individual decoration 
accomplished in an interesting manner; the horses in different 
attitudes and no two alike in color. Broad border of foliar 
scrolls in similar hues, following a narrow border of key-fret in 
white on blue. Seventeenth century. 


Length, 6 feet 1 inch; width, 3 feet 2 inches. 


491—ExcrePrprionaL ANTIQUE CHINESE Ruc 


Short, dense pile, and rare ornamentation. Narrow-selvage 
and fringe-ends. A tawny-yellow throughout, with dragon 
ration. A central medallion displays a dragon and scrol 


rug, with like scrolls in the two shades of blue; and about 
field are eight other dragons in the two blues, picked out by the 
darker yellow. Surrounding the medallions and_ scattere is 
throughout the fabric are innumerable twisted cords a few inc 
in length, coming through the pile and overlying the surface 
shaggy carelessness of unique decoration. It has been ex 
jectured that they also serve as a protection to the surface c 
the fabric. Sixteenth century. . 


Length, 6 feet; width, 3 feet 1 ine 


492—AntiavuE CHINESE Rve 


Soft, compact pile; overcast ends and fringed sides. On a light- 
fawn field the ‘“‘Hundred Antiques,” with various writers’ tab. 
ornaments, scattered in blue, black, yellow and other colors 
around a medallion of floral and geometrical designs ; correspon-- 
dent corner patterns, and borders ornamented in two shades of 
blue and yellow. Seventeenth century. 


Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches. 


493—EIGHTETENTH CENTURY CHINESE RUG 


Soft pile; loose texture. Glowing sapphire ground between over- <a 


cast sides and fringed ends, a narrow double-stripe of white and 
pale sky-blue furnishing the only demarcation of the expansive, “4 
gem-hued field. On this blue expanse are spread many foliate — 


sprays and fluttering butterflies, scattered between medallions 
in pale-blue and white in the corners, and a composite central 
medallion in the same colors with the addition of yellow, brown, 


and the deep sapphire of the ground. 


Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches. 


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494—AntiquE CHINESE Lonc-strRip CARPET 


Deep pile and characteristic texture. Café-au-lait ground with 
delicate sheen, occupied throughout by the “Hundred Antiques” 
and a medallion of flowering trees with the bat emblem of hap- 
pinmess, in rich and varied colors. Correspondingly luxuriant 
border in soft and harmonious colors. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 9 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


495—AntTieuE CHINESE Lonc-strip CARPET 


Short pile, with a smooth, soft surface and fine sheen; the 
ground a light fulvous tone, lighter in hue than the lightest 
parts of the tiger’s tawny pelt, with foliated spandrels of light 
brown and a petaled medallion of light and dark brown, sky- 
blue and the fulvous reserve. Five individual squares of the 
same design woven as one piece; could be divided and made 
into mats. Seventeenth century. 


Length, 11 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


496—CuinEsE Woo.Len Rvuc 


Soft, loose pile. Quadrangular field of mustard yellow, of a 

- curiously mottled effect due to a diaper or lattice in lighter tone, 

enclosing a large foliar medallion adorned with flower scrolls 

and having a Show character in black at its heart. Successive 

borders of swastika fret and chrysanthemum scroll in blue, white, 
orange-pink and brown. Early eighteenth century. 

Length, 6 feet 9 inches; width, 6 feet. 


497—EIcHTEENTH CENTURY CHINESE Rug 


Short pile and loose texture; overcast sides; ends bound. Vari- 
colored ground of intricate lattice-work, with a softened salmon- 
pink, pale canary-yellow, and light, sunny sky-blue effecting the 
predominating tone; strong contrasts of deep blue and white in 
a few conspicuous sprays and a central medallion, and Fu-lions 
rampant in yellow, blue and white in the corners. Light border 
in harmony, and an outline band of deep sapphire tone. 


Length, 8 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


498—AnrTieuE CHINESE Rue 


Loose texture with firm pile; oblong field of light brown covered 
with a peony-scroll in light Imperial-yellow expanding into blos- 
soms of white, yellow, blue and black. Foliated border of black, 
white and two shades of blue on pale yellow, between stripes. 
Eighteenth century. | 


Length, 9 feet 2 inches; width, 5 feet 2 inches. 


499—AntTIQqUE CHINESE Haru Strip 


Firm pile with loose texture. At head and foot of the long field, 


scrolling archaic dragons at the corners with the coveted jewel — ‘ 
between them, the field thereafter ornamentally divided into — 


squares by derivative conventional scrolls, the fields between them 
centered by polyfoliate medallions enclosing the swastika symbol. 


The field ground-color is salmon-pink, the scrolls are in sky-blue _ 


and white, and the medallions in varying yellows and pink. | 
Border of swastika-fret in sapphire-blue on a _ tawny-yellow 
ground, with foliate interruptions. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 32 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


500—CHINESE Sink Rue 


501 


Soft, deep pile, and brilliant luster. Ground of rich, creamy- 
brown, decorated in an oblong field and two principal borders with 
rich foliations and arabesques in cerulean blue and a lustrous 
mauve. The field contains a central scrolled medallion and 
between the wider borders is a narrow fret border in the same 
color scheme. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 8 feet; width, 5 feet. 


EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CHINESE Rue 


Deep, soft pile and loose texture. On a pale lemon-colored field — 
with a sheen of baffling hue are disposed eight conventional medal- 
lions and sundry sprays, in dark blue, pale blue-gray, white, and 
a deep salmon-pink. Border of T-fret with erratic interruptions ; 
overcast sides and fringe ends. 


Length, 8 feet 4 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


902—SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CHINESE Ruc 


Short pile and loose texture. A pale café-au-lait field is covered 
with a swastika-lattice in blue, with central medallion and corners 
displaying an archaic conventionalization of the dragon with 
fungus-scrolls, in blue on the main ground-color. Successive 
stripes and borders, finishing with a band of dark-gray at the 
overcast sides and fringed ends. 


Length, 9 feet 6 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


503—EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CHINESE Ruc 


Soft, compact pile, with iridescent sheen. The quadrilateral 
field has a beautiful rose-pink ground, with chromatic aberrations 
of golden tones, the whole sown with sprays and sprinkled with 
-butterflies in a colorful luxuriance which all but melts into the 
bewildering sheen. An angular-fret border is succeeded by a 
broader border of flower forms and scrolled foliations. 


Length, 9 feet 11 inches; width, 5 feet 8 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


504—Antiaevue Cuinese Rue 


Short pile, loose but compact; with sides overcast and ends 

, fringed. Yellow-brown ground throughout, with a bright sheen, 
ornamented in the large field with lotus medallions in deep blue 
and pale green, the interspaces disclosing scrolled extensions of 
the motive in subtle tones a bit lighter than the body-color of 
the rug; borders of latch-hook and lattice pattern in blue. Seven- 
teenth century. 


Length, 9 feet 7 inches; width, 7 feet 1 inch. 


505—AnTIQaUE CHINESE RuG 


Long pile and loose texture. On a fawn-colored field numerous 
Fu-lions, scrolls and foliations in two shades of blue with yellow 
and brown, about a large medallion enclosing a phoenix and kylin 
in the same colors but with a preponderance of the lighter hues. 
Foliate and fret borders. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 10 feet 5 inches; width, 5 feet 11 inches, 


BOG2 haar E1cHtTeentH CENTURY CHINESE Rue 


Soft, deep pile with loose texture. Ground of a softer P 
tone, grayed over, worked in relief with an elaborate sero 
palest of golden-yellow outlined in white, the ground fur 
sprinkled with large, yellow-centered chrysanthemums in 
and deep blue, their petals outlined in white; these blooms 
executed in relief, like the scroll. Border consisting of su 
_ cessive stripes of dark and light blue and white. Ends overcast: 
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Length, 11 feet 6 inches; width, 5 He 6 snchoe : 


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507—Antieve Cutnese Rue 


Soft pile and loose texture; with a varied decoration from ‘the sm 
rich storehouse of Celestial imagery and symbolism. The oblong 
field, with a ground of baffling tone between yellow-white and 

pale golden-yellow, is profusely sprinkled with various fruits— 
the peach, pomegranate and Buddha’s-hand citron, of the “Three __ 

Abundances,” among them—with intermingling butterflies, in 
black, orange-brown, canary-yellow, robin’s-egg blue and salmon- 
pink, about a medallion of Fu-lions in two shades of blue. Corner  __ 
ornaments and borders are wrought in agreement of color and 
design. Eighteenth century. 


Length, 10 feet 9 inches; width, 6 feet 4 inches. 


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508—AntTievE Cutinese Dracon Ruc 


Thick, close pile, with loose texture; overcast sides and fringe 
ends. White oblong field displaying an affluence of decorative 
units, comprising medallions and corner ornaments of scrolled 
dragons, clusters of the fruits of the “Three Abundances” and 
sprays of the flowers of the four seasons—the lotus, peony, 
chrysanthemum and plum—with the poppy, magnolia and other 
blossoming flora, all in deep sapphire and pale cobalt blue. 
Borders of swastika fret and foliations in the two blues with 
white reserve—the white throughout toned by time. Eighteenth 
century. 


Length, 14 feet 9 inches; width, 6 feet 10 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


509—Unvusvat Cutest Rvuc 


Soft, deep pile. Elaborate corners of salmon-pink carry sprays 
in two shades of blue, white and golden-yellow, as well as archaic 
dragon scrolls in the two blues and white, and along the field edge 
they are stepped. The field is tawny, and surrounds a large 
medallion whose outline is stepped in correspondence with the 
corner-edges, the medallion ornamentation including the dragon 
scroll, foliations and sprays, carried out in the colors of the 
corners. Borders in harmony, with flowers, foliations and fret. 


Eighteenth century. 
Length, 13 feet 9 inches; width, 13 feet 5 inches. 


510—AnTIQUE CHINESE SquarRE Ruc 


Soft, compact pile; loose texture. Field of brilliant salmon- 
pink with delicate sheen, spread with medallions and bold peony- 
sprays disposed between corner scrolls and a large central me- 
dallion of peacocks and cloud forms about the full orb of the 
sun—all in bright yellows, white, and deep and light blues, pre- 
cisely defined, with supplemental butterflies, on the expansive and 
luminous surface. Borders of T-fret, dots and floral lattice. 
Early eighteenth century. 


Length, 13 feet 6 inches; breadth, 13 feet 6 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


511—Larce ANTIQUE CHINESE Rue 


Deep pile and loose texture, with two fringed and two overcast 
edges. Orange-brown field brilliantly adorned in salmon-pink 
white, black, turquoise-blue, bright yellow and light green with 
an expansive floreation in the peony motive, around a large me- 
dallion of Fu-lions sporting with the brocaded ball. Borders of 
fret, foliations and numerous stripes in varied colors. Early 
eighteenth century. 

Length, 14 feet 5 inches; width, 13 feet & inches. 


512—Larce AnTIQUE CHINESE Rue 


Deep, soft pile with loose texture; fringed sides and overcast 
ends. A fabric of marked dignity and sobriety, with a decora- 
tion rich but subdued, the dimensions adding to the impression, 
and commensurate borders. Field of a yellowed-brown with 
salmon-pink trend, carrying a large medallion and four smaller 
ones, details of the archaic dragon-scroll at the corners, and the 
varying motives known as the “Hundred Antiques” spaciously 
distributed throughout the broad, intervening spaces—all in 
light and dark blue, salmon-pink, white and brown. Early 
eighteenth century. 


Length, 15 feet 5 inches; width, 11 feet 2 inches. 


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513—Larer ANTIQUE CHINESE Rue 


Thick, soft, short pile; loose, flexible texture. Profuse adorn- 
ment of floral tracery in light and dark blue, white and yellow, 
surrounding a medallion combining the phcenix and rock peony, 
on a ground of orange-pink.. T-fret, floral and stripe borders. 
Seventeenth century. 

Length, 16 feet 8 inches; width, 16 feet 5 inches. 


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514—Larcre ANTIQUE CHINESE SQuARE Rue 


Thick, compact pile and loose texture. The spacious salmon- 
pink ground is spread with a luxuriant ornamentation of peony 
blossom and scroll in a harmony of brilliant yellows and blues, 
soft browns and white, embracing a bold medallion of dragon 
scroll in two shades of blue. Bordered by a series of stripes, with 
fret and floral-scroll bands, Eighteenth century. 


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515—Larce ANTIQUE CHINESE SQuarRE Rue 


Short, close pile. The large square blue field is strewn with 
sprays and ornaments between a large central medallion and four 
smaller medallions which are set near the corner designs. The 
corners exhibit the archaic dragon scroll with conventionalized 
floral forms, the smaller medallions flowers, foliations and angular 
scrolls surrounding a Show character, and the larger medallion 
conventional flower forms and scrolling foliations interwoven with 
the archaic dragon scroll. All decoration in orange-yellow, pale 
canary, fawn color, white, various browns, and blue so deep that 
it appears almost a black. The blue of the field is an unusual 
one in carpets—of cobalt quality but in a rare hue. The numer- 
ous borders include a black swastika-fret on white, a meander 
and a broad band of foliations. Seventeenth century. 


Length, 18 feet 7 inches; width, 17 feet 10 inches. 


516—Ticrr-skin Ruc 


Characteristic markings in rich color-quality and of strong 
emphasis. 


Length, tip to tip, 9 feet 8 inches; spread, 6 feet 11 inches. 


517—Pair Marste Does Fu (Karly Ming) 


Gate ornaments of white marble whose ancient surface is now 
gray. Carved in conventional attitude, on their haunches, one 
with its forepaw on the filleted ball, the other with a foot on a 
prostrate cub, and both looking well downward. Each carved 
in one piece with its heavy base. 


Height, 2 feet 9 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches; depth, 2 feet 6 inches. 


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518—Two Doc-Fu Garr Ornaments (Karly Ming) 


In white marble grayed by time and weather. Seated on their 
haunches, one with left forepaw on a cub Fu and the other one 
with his right forepaw on the brocaded ball. Each carved in one 
piece with the plinth on which he rests, which is sculptured with 
flower forms and conventional devices. 


Height, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 1 foot 7 inches; depth, 2 feet 7 inches. 


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Boldly carved in white marble which time and exposure have 
turned to gray, on carved pedestal bases which are ornamented 


with scrolls. Each wears his bell, and has his head turned well to 
one side. 


Height, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches; depth, 2 feet 6 inches. 


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